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词汇 public-transportation
释义 public transportation
noun[ U ]
USus/ˌpʌb.lɪk træn.spɚˈteɪ.ʃən/uk /ˌpʌb.lɪk træn.spɔːˈteɪ.ʃən/(UKpublic transport)
B1
a system of vehicles such as buses and trains that operate at regular times on fixed routes and are used by the public:
Greater investment in public transportation would keep more cars off the roads.
He never travels by public transportation.
There is no public transportation from the village.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Buses, trams & coaches
bus
bus captain
bus conductor
charabanc
coach
combi
double-decker
horse car
HOV
jitney
local
minibus
omnibus
school bus
single-decker
through
tram
tramlines
tramway
trolley

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Railways: trains & parts of trains
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public transportation | Business English


public transportation
noun[ U ]
 TRANSPORT USukus
→ public transport

Examples of public transportation


public transportation
The reason is that we want to ensure that the respondents can actually make a choice, in the short run, between private and publictransportation.
The usually dominant flow of cars and publictransportation is regarded as but one of the many circulation patterns of the right-of-way.
The city has a busy waterfront, office towers, streets lined with shops and entertainment and a publictransportation system that ties the city together.
The design and quality of the publictransportation system is thus an important factor itself in decreasing the use of private transportation.
The income growth and rapid urbanization have outpaced the development of infrastructures, such as paved roads, publictransportation equipment, and sewage treatment systems.
Workers in publictransportation or security are subject to a moral amendment that sanctions occasional, no-notice inspections.
In a tropical developing country, it is unlikely that individuals will commute large distances in the absence of private or reliable publictransportation.
It had been built nearly 30 miles from the capital in an isolated location that was not easily accessible by publictransportation.
One way to reduce the political opposition to such measures is to provide a suitable system of publictransportation.
Therefore, we conduct a mode choice experiment evaluating traveler preferences for different attributes of both private and publictransportation.
On the other hand, the publictransportation system is underdeveloped.
Among the most attractive potential advantages of an amplified city were such public services as electricity supply, water supply, gas supply, and publictransportation.
Instrumental activities of daily living (15) included food shopping, food preparation, performing housework, handling finances, and using publictransportation.
We therefore conclude that a program to reduce congestion and possibly pollution during peak hours should focus on increased cost of private transportation and faster, more reliable, publictransportation.
The set of possible choices was determined during the pre-test and includes urban parks, noise pollution, air pollution, parking and publictransportation, education, crime, water services, and solid waste services.
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