Hello TSC, In reviewing the UBL 2.1 definitions, I've been forced to confront (again) the use of "transport" and "transportation" in TSC content. I had previously been (somewhat) content with the implication that these two forms represented some semantic distinction, but upon closer inspection, it's clear that this is not the case. For example, the terms "transport service" and "transportation service" are mixed indiscriminately throughout definitions in the common library. I have checked in dictionaries of English and can confirm that there is, in general, no semantic distinction between "transport" and "transportation," the only notable exceptions being the use of "transportation" to refer specifically to the transportation of prisoners to penal colonies in the 19th century and the use of "transport" to mean a kind of rapture or ecstasy -- neither of which are (I assume) meanings relevant to what we're working with in UBL. In ordinary usage, the two words mean the same thing; we therefore need to pick one of them and use it consistently throughout. The question is: which one. "Transportation" appears slightly earlier in written English (1540 vs. 1611 for "transport"), but after 1660, "transportation" was gradually replaced by "transport," at least in England, though it's my impression that "transportation" is a bit more common in American English. The Wikipedia entry for "transportation" simply links to "transport," and a google check shows "transport" occurring on the web about 60 percent more often than "transportation." In UBL 2.1 xsd, "Transport" appears about 9 times more often than "Transportation" in the common library and about 3.8 times more often than "Transportation" in the document schemas. Based on the above, therefore, I think it's clear that we should have standardized on "transport." Unfortunately, "transportation" was already used in UBL 2.0 in the phrases "TransportationService" and "TransportationStatus" in the TransportationStatus document, so we are stuck with them. The best we can do at this point is to continue using "transportation" in those two phrases (and in longer names that include them) and to use "transit" everywhere else. I believe that this can be accomplished through the changes listed below. Please consider the following and be prepared to discuss at the TC level in our meetings of the week of 6 August (we are not meeting this week of 30 July). Jon ================================================================== COMMON LIBRARY CHANGES TransportationSegment -> TransportSegment TransportationSegmentType -> TransportSegmentType ResponsibleTransportServiceProviderParty -> ResponsibleTransportationServiceProviderParty TransportServiceCode -> TransportationServiceCode TransportServiceCodeType -> TransportationServiceCodeType TransportServiceDescriptionDocumentReference -> TransportationServiceDescriptionDocumentReference TransportServiceDescriptionRequestDocumentReference -> TransportationServiceDescriptionRequestDocumentReference TransportServiceProviderParty -> TransportationServiceProviderParty TransportServiceProviderRemarks -> TransportationServiceProviderRemarks TransportServiceProviderRemarksType -> TransportationServiceProviderRemarksType TransportServiceProviderResponseDeadlinePeriod -> TransportationServiceProviderResponseDeadlinePeriod TransportServiceProviderSpecialTerms -> TransportationServiceProviderSpecialTerms TransportServiceProviderSpecialTermsType -> TransportationServiceProviderSpecialTermsType DOCUMENT MODEL CHANGES UBL-GoodsItemItinerary-2.1 TransportationSegment -> TransportSegment UBL-TransportExecutionPlan-2.1.xsd TransportServiceProviderRemarks -> TransportationServiceProviderRemarks TransportServiceProviderParty -> TransportationServiceProviderParty TransportServiceDescriptionDocumentReference -> TransportationServiceDescriptionDocumentReference TransportServiceProviderResponseDeadlinePeriod -> TransportationServiceProviderResponseDeadlinePeriod UBL-TransportExecutionPlanRequest-2.1.xsd TransportServiceProviderParty -> TransportationServiceProviderParty TransportServiceDescriptionDocumentReference -> TransportationServiceDescriptionDocumentReference TransportServiceProviderResponseDeadlinePeriod -> TransportationServiceProviderResponseDeadlinePeriod UBL-TransportServiceDescription-2.1.xsd -> UBL-TransportationServiceDescription-2.1.xsd *** DOCUMENT NAME CHANGE *** TransportServiceDescription -> TransportationServiceDescription TransportServiceDescriptionType -> TransportationServiceDescriptionType TransportServiceDescriptionRequestDocumentReference -> TransportationServiceDescriptionRequestDocumentReference TransportServiceProviderParty -> TransportationServiceProviderParty UBL-TransportServiceDescriptionRequest-2.1.xsd -> UBL-TransportationServiceDescriptionRequest-2.1.xsd *** DOCUMENT NAME CHANGE *** TransportServiceDescriptionRequest -> TransportationServiceDescriptionRequest TransportServiceDescriptionRequestType -> TransportationServiceDescriptionRequestType TransportServiceProviderParty -> TransportationServiceProviderParty