Dataset · MLC-0120 · [FULL TEXT]

Transportation terminology

Name: Transportation terminology
Creator: MLchart
License: https://mlchart.com/terms/

1Description

Transportation terminology. 450 terms with definitions, abbreviations, subjects and references. Every term is published as its own page, A to Z.

3 terms carry more than one definition, numbered in the record.

Subjects (8): Air (28); Transit (24); Water (19); Highway (16); Rail (12); Travel surveys (12); Pipelines and hazardous materials (7); Energy (2).

2Schema

Table 1. Fields
Field	Type	Description	Example
id	string	Stable MLchart term identifier	MLC-T-TRA-000167
term	string	Headword as published	Gross vehicle weight rating (Truck)
field	string	Field of the dataset	Transportation
definition	string	Definition text; several definitions are numbered	The maximum rated capacity of a vehicle, including the weight of the...
abbreviation	string	Abbreviation or acronym	GVWR
subject	string	Subject within the field	Highway
see_also	array	Related terms in the same field	Large Certificated Air Carrier
references	array	Publications cited for the definition	National Transportation Statistics, Appendix B: Glossary
url	string	Canonical page of the term	https://mlchart.com/terminology/transportation/gross-vehicle-weight-ra...

3Sample records

Sample record

{
  "id": "MLC-T-TRA-000167",
  "term": "Gross vehicle weight rating (Truck)",
  "field": "Transportation",
  "definition": "The maximum rated capacity of a vehicle, including the weight of the base vehicle, all added equipment, driver and passengers, and all cargo.",
  "abbreviation": "GVWR",
  "subject": "Highway",
  "references": [
    "National Transportation Statistics, Appendix B: Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/transportation/gross-vehicle-weight-rating-truck/"
}

4Browse

Table 2. Terms by initial
Initial	Terms	From	To
A	44	Accident (Aircraft)	Aviation gasoline (General Aviation)
B	7	Barrel (oil)	Business trip (American Travel Survey)
C	45	Cancelled Flight	Current dollar
D	23	Deadweight tonnage (Water)	Duration Of Trip
E	9	East North Central Division	Express Freight
F	28	Family	Full-time Equivalent Employee
G	10	Gas transmission pipelines	Group Quarters
H	14	Hazardous material	Household Vehicle
I	22	Incident (Hazmat)	Intraterritory traffic (Water)
J	2	Jet fuel	Journey-to-Work
L	19	Lakewise or Great Lakes traffic	Lodging
M	24	Mains (Gas)	Multiple Modes
N	17	Nationals (Air)	Nonvessel-casualty-related death
O	27	Occupancy	Oxygenates
P	40	Pacific Division	Public Transportation
R	24	Race	Rural mileage (Highway)
S	25	Sampling error	Supplemental air carrier
T	38	Tanker	Tug boat
U	8	Unique Carrier	USPS Codes
V	14	Vacation Trip	Vessel-casualty-related death
W	8	Water	World Area Code
0-9	2	14 CFR 121 (Air)	14 CFR 135 (Air)

Acronyms and abbreviations: 16 entries with expansions.

All terms

5Uses

Domain adaptation and fine-tuning of language models
Term extraction, entity recognition and entity linking
Glossary, thesaurus and ontology construction
Search query expansion and synonym mapping
Evaluation sets for definition and question answering tasks

6Citation

@misc{mlchart_terminology_transportation_2026,
  title     = {Transportation terminology},
  author    = {MLchart},
  publisher = {MLchart},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {2026.10},
  url       = {https://mlchart.com/terminology/transportation/}
}

MLchart. (2026). Transportation terminology (Version 2026.10) [Data set]. https://mlchart.com/terminology/transportation/

7Access

The full Transportation terminology dataset (MLC-0120), 450 records. Delivered as JSONL, CSV or Parquet under a commercial licence.

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