negamile
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of negative + mile, equivalent to nega- + mile. Compare negawatt.
Noun
[edit]negamile (plural negamiles)
- A proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.
- 1992 July, Popular Science, volume 241, number 1, page 96:
- [I]nstead of tolls, he talks about negamiles — paying people to stay off the roads, so they needn't be built and mended so much. So far, however, no negamile programs exist […]
- 1999, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution, page 281:
- By creating markets in negamiles and negatrips, society could discover what it's worth to pay people to stay off the roads […]