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Road productivity can be defined as the throughput traffic volume of a roadway at a given point (vehicles or persons per hour), or as the person-miles or vehicle-miles per hour that can be moved on a roadway segment, or on an area-wide road network.
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Falcocchio, J.C., Levinson, H.S. (2015). The Impacts of Congestion on Roadway Traffic Productivity. In: Road Traffic Congestion: A Concise Guide. Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15165-6_12
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