Transport efficiency

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.

ee also

*Fuel efficiency in transportation