Relating to travel between places relatively close together.
It's only a short-distance drive from here.
1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.
1962 June, “Letters to the Editor: Diesel suburban services in Bristol”, in Modern Railways, page 430:
Short-distance rail travel in this district has been a doubtful proposition ever since buses were introduced.
2023 June 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: One year on: rail strikes still at a stalemate”, in RAIL, number 985, page 11:
The PM hit the headlines again for taking short-distance air travel rather than rail.
