transportation system

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstransportationtransit

   Broaderfacility

   Narrowerair transportation systemhighway systempublic transitshort linetelpherage

   Part ofinfrastructure

   Partsairfieldbridgelinepublic transportterminalway

Questions about transportation system

What does transportation system mean?

transportation system means "a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods".

What is another word for transportation system?

Close synonyms include transportation, transit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transportation system a common word?

transportation system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.