intermodal
A shipping container for intermodal use.
Adjective
- Relating to more than one mode of transport.
- an intermodal station which provides transfers between buses and trains
- Boxes from Southampton: In September, GB Railfreight began a new intermodal service from Solent Stevedores to Manchester. [...] This is the third daily working GBRf offers serving Southampton and GBRf's 17th intermodal...
- It created inter-city and intermodal services, which were genuinely world leading. And it undeniably pushed British Railways into the modern era. - 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English modal English intermodal From inter- + modal.
Related
balanced transportation containerised intermodalism transloading transshipment
Derived
Noun
- A shipping container for intermodal use.