No. The knowledge standard concerns the actual organizational knowledge and proposed duties. Frequent or costly travel is not the qualifying test.
Explain the experience rather than its expense
Identify what the employee knows and how it is applied. Keep business travel costs apart from government and professional charges. A commercial travel pattern cannot cure the foreign-year or customer-site conditions.
A smaller or family-run operation may need more time to assemble training and project records than a large company with existing HR systems, but that is a scheduling and preparation-cost question, not a reason to substitute a vaguer knowledge claim. Specialized-knowledge petitions attract requests for evidence more often than most categories, so a thorough initial filing prepared by a licensed U.S. immigration attorney is cheaper than a thin one followed by a response. Where L-1B differs is in the professional effort: assembling proprietary documentation, drafting a technical narrative that a non-specialist adjudicator can follow, and responding to a request for evidence, which is frequent in this category.