car mileage

English

Noun

car mileage (countable and uncountable, plural car mileages)

(rail transport) Car miles collectively.
- 1908, Second and Third Annual Reports of the Railroad Commission of Washington to the Governor, page 282:
  That the passenger car mileage for the entire system for the year ending June 30th, 1906, was 44,779,961 miles, of which 6,812593 miles or 15.214 per cent., was in the state of Washington.
- 1914 January 31, The Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Report of Price, Waterhouse & Company upon the cost to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Philadephia & Reading Railway Company of transporting antracite coal from the respective mining sections in the eastern part of Pennsylvanial to Philadelphia, page 13:
  The total revenue car mileage in bituminous coal service for the period was ascertained for each division in a similar manner, and that in coke service also, except that the empty car mileage in this service was taken as equal to the loaded car mileage as already indicated.
- 1924, Congressional Record, page 5551:
  It will be immediately apparent from this table that the extent to which the average weights of coaches and Pullman cars on each road is considered in the total, without, for the moment, questioning the accuracy of such weight for the various individual roads, bears no relation whatever either to the ratio which the car mileage of each particular road bears to the whole of the 19 roads, or even to the ratio which the car mileage tested on each particular road bears to the total mileage tested on the 19 roads.
(automotive) The amount paid by one road for the use of cars of another road. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see car,‎ mileage. The number of miles that a car (or a similar vehicle) drives.
- 1940, United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation, Public Aids to Transportation, page 130:
  The ratio of average annual truck mileage to passenger car mileage is therefore 1.23.
- 1942, Problems of American Small Business - Parts 1-9, page 460:
  It is our experience and our belief, based upon our studies, that with proper tire care, and we mean the kind of care that is available through tire-service stations but which the owner has not heretofore found necessary because he had unlimited supplies of new rubber available, will increase the average car mileage from 18,000 miles to a conservative figure of 32,000 miles.
- 1943, United States. Office of Civilian Defense, Release for Mileage Publicity, page P-1:
  "Before we get started on this program," Mr. ___ said, "I think it is essential that residents of the ___ area understand in very definite terms why it is necessary to ration car mileage and exactly what the Defense Council proposes to do ."
- 1979, NBS Special Publication - Issue 480, page 3:
  The California State Highway Patrol is currently engaged in a study of the relationship between patrol car mileage and operating, maintenance, repair cost and depreciation.
- 1982, European Conference of Ministers of Transport, ECMT Round Tables: The Future of the Use of the Car, page 118:
  This would be particularly so in Scotland where the average urban car mileage is greater than in rural areas.