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Add Mass Distance Quantity used in transportation industry #1388

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@rowens-an rowens-an commented May 10, 2024

MassDistance is a unit of measure in the transportation industry, particularly with freight transportation. There are three primary Units that are used in the industry

  • Kilogram-Kilometer
  • Tonne-Kilometer
  • Ton-Mile

In general, this Quantity is for measuring the amount of freight transported across a distance. We are using it for carbon emissions calculations, particularly tkm and tmi.

More information can be found on Wikipedia

 - Add new Quantity Mass Distance
 - Add new Unit Kilogram-Kilometer
 - Add new Unit Tonne-Kilometer
 - Add new Unit ShortTon-Mile
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As a note, I wasn't sure what to call this Quantity. I originally thought it would be useful to call it PayloadDistance but settled on MassDistance as it fits the naming convention a bit more.

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Hi, this feels too domain specific for UnitsNet, sorry.

It is a balance, but we generally try to only bring in units that are widely used and preferably across multiple domains.

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