piggyback transport

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• piggyback — pig‧gy‧back [ˈpɪgibæk] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] to use a situation that already exists in order to do or get what you want: piggyback on/​onto • Some pharmaceutical companies piggyback on existing brands by borrowing parts of their… …   Financial and business terms

• piggyback — [pig′ē bak΄] adv. [alt. of PICKABACK] 1. on the shoulders or back [to carry a child piggyback] 2. by a piggyback transportation system 3. so as to be fixed to, carried by, connected with, or dependent on something else adj. 1. on the shoulders or …   English World dictionary

• transport — [n1] move, transfer carriage, carrier, carrying, carting, conveyance, conveying, conveyor, freightage, hauling, lift, movement, mover, moving, passage, removal, shipment, shipping, transference, transferring, transit, transportation, transporting …   New thesaurus

• piggyback — /ˈpɪgibæk / (say pigeebak) adverb 1. sitting on the back or shoulders of another: to ride piggyback. –noun 2. a piggyback ride. 3. a method of transportation in which truck trailers are carried on trains, or cars on specially designed trucks.… …  

• piggyback service — A distribution service in which loaded truck trailers, or other sealed containers, are carried by rail to destinations from which they can be taken by truck to their final destination. Similar services are fishyback service, involving transport… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• piggyback —  Intermodal transportation combining rail and truck transport …   American business jargon

• Intermodal freight transport — For passenger transport, see Intermodal passenger transport. Intermodal ship to rail transfer of containerized cargos at APM Terminals in Portsmouth, Virginia. Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal… …   Wikipedia

• 1953 in rail transport — EventsJanuary events* January 15 The brakes fail on Pennsylvania Railroad s westbound Federal Express passenger train; the train barrels through the end of track barriers and stationmaster s office at Union Station in Washington, DC, but nobody… …   Wikipedia

• Multimodaler Transport — Unter Multimodalem Verkehr oder gebrochenem Verkehr wird im Verkehrswesen allgemein der Transport eines Gutes mit zwei oder mehr unterschiedlichen Verkehrsträgern (Schiene, Straße, Binnen und Seeschiff, Flugzeug, Pipeline) verstanden. Eine… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• 1955 in rail transport — EventsJanuary events* January The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad s mainline (485 miles of track) is now completely under CTC. * January Louisville and Nashville Railroad begins the merger process with the Nashville, Chattanooga and …   Wikipedia

• Seaboard Air Line Railroad — Le Seaboard Air Line Railroad (sigle AAR: SAL), qui se faisait appeler « The Route of Courteous Service » (« la route du service courtois »), était un chemin de fer américain qui exista du 14 avril 1900 au 1er juillet… …   Wikipédia en Français