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2. Freight rate - Wikipedia

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   Freight rate. A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight[ 1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck, ship, train, aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.

3. Less-than-truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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   Less-than-truckload shipping or less than load ( LTL) is the transportation of an amount of freight sized between individual parcels and full truckloads. Parcel carriers handle small packages and freight that can be broken down into units less than approximately 150 pounds (68 kg). Full truckload carriers move entire semi-trailers.

4. Trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Interstate Highway system (2007) Estimated average annual daily truck traffic for Interstate and major US Highways (1998). Components of diesel exhaust were confirmed as an animal carcinogen in 1988 by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and by 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considered it "likely to be carcinogenic to humans". [8]

5. Transportation in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The vast majority of passenger travel in the United States occurs by automobile for shorter distances and airplane or railroad for longer distances. Most cargo in the U.S. is transported by, in descending order, railroad, truck, pipeline, or boat; air shipping is typically used only for perishables and premium express shipments.

6. Earth mover's distance - Wikipedia

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   Earth mover's distance. In computer science, the earth mover's distance ( EMD) [ 1] is a measure of dissimilarity between two frequency distributions, densities, or measures, over a metric space D . Informally, if the distributions are interpreted as two different ways of piling up earth (dirt) over D, the EMD captures the minimum cost of ...

7. Energy efficiency in transport - Wikipedia

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   The energy efficiency in transport is the useful travelled distance, of passengers, goods or any type of load; divided by the total energy put into the transport propulsion means. The energy input might be rendered in several different types depending on the type of propulsion, and normally such energy is presented in liquid fuels, electrical ...