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Transportation engineering

the drop in discharge flow at a freeway bottleneck once a queue forms, so throughput falls just when it is most needed.

In transportation engineering, capacity drop refers to the drop in discharge flow at a freeway bottleneck once a queue forms, so throughput falls just when it is most needed. This meaning comes from Cassidy (1999) in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.[1]

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bottleneck4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs capacity5 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four limits discharge3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Cassidy, M. J., & Bertini, R. L. (1999). Some traffic features at freeway bottlenecks. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 33(1), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0191-2615(98)00023-x

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