Ton kilometers
Tonne-kilometers (tkm) is freight a measure of the transport capacity of freight , called the traffic performance .
It is measured by the product of the transported mass in tons ( ) and the distance covered in kilometers ( ):
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In transport , a distinction is offered or in the form of vehicles available to transport capacity (TKO, English tonne kilometers offered ) and the actual transport performance (TKT, English tonne kilometers transported ). Your quotient is the freight load:
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In passenger transport, the traffic performance is usually measured in passenger or person kilometers (pkm).
literature
- Literature on tonne kilometers in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon
- ↑ Terms from aviation , lufthansagroup.com.