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All modes of transit have high capacity. Even an ordinary city bus route, running in mixed traffic, can carry thousands of people per hour. Any transit technology can carry more people than single-occupant vehicles in the same space. Often, then, capacity is not the driver; the drivers are speed, reliability, and quality of service. □
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Spieler, C. (2018). Capacity. In: Trains, Buses, People. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-904-3_14
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