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Definitions for transportation system
trans·porta·tion sys·tem

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. transportation system, transportation, transitnoun

    a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

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  1. transportation system

    A transport network, or transportation network, is a network or graph in geographic space, describing an infrastructure that permits and constrains movement or flow. Examples include but are not limited to road networks, railways, air routes, pipelines, aqueducts, and power lines. The digital representation of these networks, and the methods for their analysis, is a core part of spatial analysis, geographic information systems, public utilities, and transport engineering. Network analysis is an application of the theories and algorithms of graph theory and is a form of proximity analysis.

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  1. transportation system

    A transportation system refers to a network or infrastructure that facilitates the movement of people, goods, or vehicles from one place to another. This includes various modes of transport such as roadways, railways, airways, waterways, pipelines, and sometimes cable or space networks that are interconnected and coordinated to ensure smooth and efficient transport. The system also includes terminals such as airports, train stations, bus stations, seaports, and other facilities like traffic signals, signs, and services like maintenance, operations, and management.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. transportation system

    All the land, water, and air routes and transportation assets engaged in the movement of US forces and their supplies across the range of military operations, involving both mature and immature theaters and at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war.

Editors Contribution

  1. transportation system

    A system to provide a form of transport with services provided by a form of unity assembly, unity council, unity legislature, unity senate, unity house of representatives, unity parliament, unity government, regional unity government, national unity government, european unity government and international unity government public service employees

    All transportation systems are now nationalized and all employees are now public service employees


    Submitted by MaryC on February 9, 2021  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of transportation system in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of transportation system in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of transportation system in a Sentence

  1. Representative Bill Shuster:

    I do not believe it is in the best interests of the U.S. freight transportation system, railroad employees, rail shippers and the short line railroads, i have expressed my concerns to the appropriate federal agency and I believe it is time for all parties to move on from hypothetical merger proposals and focus on improving the transportation of goods and products to help grow the American economy.

  2. Michelle Rucker:

    If you're looking at the odometer on your vehicle, to get round trip from here to Mars and back, it's about 2,000 times as far as going to the Moon and back, we've got to sort of chase Mars around the sun. We need a reliable in-space transportation system.

  3. Hendrith Smith:

    Cars will need to be designed with whole new ways of thinking. The design of cars will need to adapt to a whole new transportation system. Each individual car part will evolve as functionalities evolve and the way we utilize cars evolves.

  4. Beverly Scott:

    No question, much more remains to be done to achieve the modern, and first-class public transportation system that all want and deserve.

  5. Hendrith Smith:

    In the context of the new transportation system, Drivers Licenses will become mostly irrelevant and unnecessary. When everything is autonomous, the need for drivers licenses as a safety feature of the system will just not even make sense.


Translations for transportation system

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  • σύστημα μετακινήσηςGreek
  • परिवहन प्रणालीHindi
  • translationem ratioLatin

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