negamile

English

Etymology

Blend of negative +‎ mile. Compare negawatt.

Noun

negamile (plural negamiles)

1. A proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.
   • 1992, Popular Science (volume 241, number 1, July 1992, page 96)

     [I]nstead of tolls, he talks about negamiles — paying people to stay off the roads, so they needn't be built and mended so much. So far, however, no negamile programs exist […]

   • 1999, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution (page 281)

     By creating markets in negamiles and negatrips, society could discover what it's worth to pay people to stay off the roads […]

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