In plain English
It refers to leaving a vehicle when your journey on it has ended. The word is used for stepping off or out after riding.
In context
Here, it tells passengers to leave the vehicle they have been travelling in.
- Situation
- Using rail, bus, metro, ride, and local-transit tickets and service updates
- What it communicates
- instructs passengers to leave the vehicle.
Meaning limits
The term itself does not say why someone is leaving, exactly where they leave, or what happens next.
Examples
“After a long ride, the hikers alighted from the coach one by one.”
“Please alight from the train at the next station.”