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road capacity

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road capacity [′rōd kə‚pas·əd·ē]
(civil engineering)
The maximum traffic flow obtainable on a given roadway, using all available lanes, usually expressed in vehicles per hour or vehicles per day.


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With little chance of increasing urban road capacity sufficiently, an increase in truck volume would continue to add to our commuting problems.
And it's no wonder gridlock is so bad: The population has skyrocketed more than 70 percent since the late 1960s, but road capacity has increased by less than 30 percent.
The tolls could only be used for short-term financing of expanding road capacity," Replogle says.
 
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