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Term of the Road Dictionary

flow rate

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / English
  • Theme : Operations Traffic Traffic Engineering
  • Definition : Number of vehicles or persons passing a given point per unit time. Note: compare with "traffic volume".
  • Synonyms : traffic flow 2 / traffic intensity

Verkehrsstärke2

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / German
  • Theme : Betrieb Verkehr Verkehrstechnik
  • Definition : Anzahl der Verkehrselemente eines Verkehrsstromes je Zeiteinheit an einem Querschnitt.

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