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Airport - A facility from which aircraft takeoff and land. Related Terms: Airport - aircraft | airway | facility | land | Army - The branch of military that conducts land operations.Related Terms: Army - air force | marine | marines | military | navy | Automated Vehicle Location - Class of technologies designed to locate vehicles for fleet management purposes and for stolen vehicle recovery. Infrastructure can be land-based radio towers or satellites. Acronym: AVL Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Automated Vehicle Location - intelligent transportation systems | intelligent vehicle highway systems | trucking | Boat - A small vessel or craft that is usually open; or a vessel designed for use on inland rivers, lakes or waterways.Related Terms: Boat - craft | inland waterway | vessel | water | Canal - A natural or man-made inland waterway usually connecting other waterways or bodies of water.Related Terms: Canal - barge | dock | inland waterway | pier | ship | vessel | water | Facility - Land, buildings, or an industrial complex designed and equipped to perform a specific function.Related Terms: Facility - equipment | function | industry | land | Inland - A term used to differentiate between the land and water segments of a transshipment; the domestic segment of a transshipment; a domestic shipment; on land; by land; over land; within the boundaries of a body of land; within a continent, country or region.Related Terms: Inland - domestic | freight | land | shipment | trade | transshipment | water | Inland Bill of Lading - A bill of lading that applies to overland shipments to an international carrier. Acronym: IBLRelated Terms: Inland Bill of Lading - bill of lading | carrier | consign | consignment | domestic | inland | international | shipment | straight bill of lading | Inland Waterways - Subject to EC legislation since 1982 in terms of types and specifications of commercial craft, with mutual recognition on navigability and control since 1976. Reference: Professor Derek Urwin, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K., http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~pol028/index.htmRelated Terms: Inland Waterways - international | trade | Landing Gear (1) - Retracting legs which support the front of a semitrailer when it is not coupled to a tractor. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Landing Gear (1) - trailer | trucking | Marine - Of or related to the ocean or water; or relating to the branch of military which operates on both land and water.Related Terms: Marine - freight | land | marines | maritime | military | sea | water | Marines - The branch of military that conducts operations on both land and water.Related Terms: Marines - air force | army | marine | military | navy | Water - A transportation medium; the hydrosphere; oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, streams, canals, and inland waterways.Related Terms: Water - inland waterway | marine | maritime | ship | transportation | vessel | waterway |
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