Transportation vs Mobility - What's the difference?
transportation | mobility |
The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
(historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
(US) A means of conveyance.
(US) A ticket or fare.
* 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
(uncountable) The condition of being mobile
(countable) A measure of the extent to which something is mobile
(countable) The movement of people or things
(uncountable) Ease of movement between economic conditions
As nouns the difference between transportation and mobility
is that transportation is the act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc while mobility is the condition of being mobile.transportation
English
Noun
(-)- We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
- Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
- Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
- Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
- (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
- Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."