transportation system
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transportation system
All the land, water, and air routes and transportation assets engaged in the movement of US forces and their supplies across the range of military operations, involving both mature and immature theaters and at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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| Noun | 1. |  transportation system - a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goodsair transportation system - a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air bridge, span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" highway system - a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport infrastructure, base - the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" line - a commercial organization serving as a common carrier public transit - a public transportation system for moving passengers public transport - conveyance for passengers or mail or freight short line - a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances telferage, telpherage - a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity way - any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out" |
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