The use of two or more transportation modes to transport freight; for example, rail to ship to truck.
Transportation that involves the interchange between transportation modes, such as automobiles, mass transit such as buses and railway. Intermodal transportation enables people and goods to be consolidated into larger groups that can be transported at lower costs. In addition to reducing costs, it enables greater logistic flexibility than can also reduce congestion and travel time.
A shipment utilising more than one mode of transport - i.e., a shipment moving in container by water and then rail.
Transportation movement involving more than one mode, e.g., rail-motor, motor-air, or rail-water.
Transporting freight by using two or more transportation modes.
Transporting freight over two or more transportation modes. An example would be freight in containers that is moved from shipper's dock to rail yard, then placed on rail container stack train, and at destination, returned to a truck for delivery to the receiving customer.
Using more than one mode to deliver shipments. For example, rail or ocean vessel carriage of tractor-trailer containers.
More than one mode is used, such as truck trailers on rail flatcars.