Transport efficiency
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Transport efficiency is a measure of how much it costs (in dollars, time, energy or other kinds of overhead) to move a certain amount of something (goods, people, other types of load).
Examples of usage are:
- Speed times payload (kilogram-kilometres per hour), as seen in Tiltrotor
- As a more wide-reaching consideration of costs than fuel efficiency
- As a generic term for "this does better", as seen in Volvo B10BLE
Transport efficiency (often termed transportation efficiency) is very often used as a political slogan; when one talks about reducing the cost of transport in order to make business more competitive, it gives a more positive image to talk about "increasing transport efficiency".
Examples of this usage include:
- The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, seeking to legislate efficient transport.
- The Coalition for America's Gateways and Trade Corridors has made transport efficiency their main cause.
- The New Mobility Agenda uses it as an example of "old thinking" about transport.
