| Terms | Definitions |
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| Scheduled Departure Time | The scheduled time that an aircraft should lift off from the origin airport. ( Airline On-Time Performance Data ) |
| Scheduled Departures | Takeoffs scheduled at an airport, as set forth in published schedules. (same as Departures Scheduled) ( Small Air Carrier Statistics (Form 298C Traffic Data) ) |
| Scheduled Service | Transport service operated persuant to published flight schedules, including extra sections and related nonrevenue flights. ( Air Carrier Financial Reports (Form 41 Financial Data), Small Air Carrier Statistics (Form 298C Traffic Data) ) |
| Scheduled Time Of Arrival | The scheduled time that an aircraft should cross a certain point (landing or metering fix). ( Airline On-Time Performance Data ) |
| Seat Mile | The aircraft miles flown in each inter-airport segment multiplied by the number of seats available on that segment for revenue passenger use. ( Small Air Carrier Statistics (Form 298C Traffic Data), Air Carrier Summary Data (Form 41 and 298C Summary Data) ) |
| Seats Available | Installed seats in an aircraft (including seats in lounges) exclusive of any seats not offered for sale to the public by the carrier; provided that in no instance shall any seat sold be excluded from the count of available seats. ( Air Carrier Statistics (Form 41 Traffic)- U.S. Carriers, Air Carrier Statistics (Form 41 Traffic)- All Carriers ) |
| Segment | A pair of points served or scheduled to be served by a single stage of at least one flight at any given time. ( Air Carrier Statistics (Form 41 Traffic)- All Carriers, Air Carrier Statistics (Form 41 Traffic)- U.S. Carriers ) |
| Segmented Trip | A trip that includes at least one transfer. ( Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) ) |
| Shallow Draft Vessels | Barges, ships, or ferries operating primarily on rivers and canals; in harbors, the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence Seaway; the Intracoastal Waterway, the Inside Passage to Alaska, major bays and inlets; or in the ocean close to the shoreline. ( Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) ) |
| Shipment | An individual movement of commodities from an establishment to a customer or to another location of the originating company (including a warehouse, distribution center, retail or wholesale outlet). A shipment uses one or more modes of transportation including parcel delivery, U.S. Postal Service, courier, private truck, for-hire truck, rail, water, pipeline, air, and other modes. ( Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) ) |
| Small Aircraft | Aircraft originally designed to have a maximum passenger capacity of 60 seats or less or a maximum payload capacity of 18,000 pounds or less. ( Small Air Carrier Statistics (Form 298C Traffic Data) ) |
| Small Certificated Air Carrier | An air carrier which operates small aircraft, and holds a certificate of public convenience and necessity. ( Small Air Carrier Statistics (Form 298C Traffic Data) ) |
| South Atlantic Division | Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida ( American Travel Survey (ATS) 1995 ) |
| Standard Classification Of Transported Goods | A commodity coding system developed jointly by agencies of the United States and Canadian governments based on the Harmonized System to address statistical needs in regard to products transported. (acronym SCTG) ( Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) ) |
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