• reallynotnick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Average should be a measured real world quantity. A max theoretical value should never be average unless it’s literally always at the max… on average.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      The wording on the chart isn’t the best, but I’m presuming they mean average capacity, not average ridership, because every city and every system will have its own factors that can impact the specific capacity of their transit modes. E.g., one system may have double-decker suburban rail vs another’s single-decker, or one system may have articulated buses vs another’s non-articulated. These differences would result in differing capacities, but the purpose of the chart is to show a ballpark number for what the typical capacity of a 3.5m corridor of each type would be, based on averaging system capacities in presumably many different cities.