One ton of goods carried one mile, as a unit of traffic.
吨-英里（货运单位，运输1英里的1吨货物）
Example sentencesExamples
During the week ending Oct 16, U.S. railroads' volume totaled 33.1 billion ton-miles, breaking the record of 32.7 billion ton-miles set a week earlier.
Total volume through the first 47 weeks of 2004 was estimated at 1.458 trillion ton-miles, up 5.1 percent from a year ago.
Did you know that Class I U.S. railroads provided a record 1.55 trillion ton-miles of freight service in 2003?
This is a probable decrease in the cost of maintenance per 1,000 gross ton-miles of traffic movement.
Spatial networks are invariably ignored with output treated as single homogeneous measures such as ton-miles.
Total volume was estimated at 32.5 billion ton-miles, up 1.2 percent from last year.
He pays trucking firms both by the hour and by the ton-mile.
They estimate that trucks generate about 45% of all ton-miles associated with the carriage of agricultural products and carry about 66% of the transported agricultural tonnage.
Consequently, the number of ton-miles tripled, while the number of roads and track mileage dwindled.
Definition of ton-mile in US English:
ton-mile
nounˈtən ˌmīl
One ton of freight carried one mile, as a unit of traffic.
吨-英里（货运单位，运输1英里的1吨货物）
Example sentencesExamples
Spatial networks are invariably ignored with output treated as single homogeneous measures such as ton-miles.
They estimate that trucks generate about 45% of all ton-miles associated with the carriage of agricultural products and carry about 66% of the transported agricultural tonnage.
He pays trucking firms both by the hour and by the ton-mile.
This is a probable decrease in the cost of maintenance per 1,000 gross ton-miles of traffic movement.
During the week ending Oct 16, U.S. railroads' volume totaled 33.1 billion ton-miles, breaking the record of 32.7 billion ton-miles set a week earlier.
Did you know that Class I U.S. railroads provided a record 1.55 trillion ton-miles of freight service in 2003?
Total volume through the first 47 weeks of 2004 was estimated at 1.458 trillion ton-miles, up 5.1 percent from a year ago.
Consequently, the number of ton-miles tripled, while the number of roads and track mileage dwindled.
Total volume was estimated at 32.5 billion ton-miles, up 1.2 percent from last year.