A distance of one mile run by a vehicle; the equivalent of ‘car-mile,’ but applied to road vehicles instead of to cars which run on rails.(noun)
The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)
Use "vehicle-mile" in a sentence
"When you account for that and the fact that the AAA number is cost per vehicle-mile and I was giving cost per passenger-mile to compare with transit, you get the kind of number that I gave."
"As I said, direct public subsidies to motor vehicle users are about 20 cents per gallon of gas, or about 1 cent per vehicle-mile, or about 0.7 cents per passenger-mile."
"What part of direct public subsidies to motor vehicle users are about 20 cents per gallon of gas, or about 1 cent per vehicle-mile, or about 0.7 cents per passenger-mile."