Passengers per hour per direction
- Passengers per hour per direction
Passengers per hour per direction [United Kingdom Parliament, [http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmtran/378/378we62.htm Integrated Transport: The Future of Light Rail and Modern Trams in Britain Inquiry, Memorandum by Transport for London (LR 77)] , 2005-08-10.] or passengers per hour in peak direction [U.S. Department of Transportation, [http://www.nbrti.org/docs/pdf/South%20American%20BRT%20Report_FINAL_December%202007.pdf Report on South American Bus Rapid Transit Field Visits: Tracking the Evolution of the TransMilenio Model] , 2007-12, retrieved 2008-07-10.] (PPHPD or p/h/d) is a transport-related term used to describe the capacity of a rapid transit or public transport system.
Directional flow
Many public transport system handle a highly directional flow of passengers—often traveling to work to a city in the morning rush hour and away from a city in the late afternoon. To increase the passenger throughput, many systems can be reconfigured to change the direction of the optimised flow. An common example is a railway or metro station with more than two parallel escalators, where the majority of the escalators can be set to move in one direction. This gives rise to the measure of the peak-flow rather than a simple average of half of the total capacity.
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