• Iceblade@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Looks to be an average of 2 ppl per lane with 3m ahead & behind. An average biking speed for commuters is 18-29kph, so let’s do the calculus for 20, 25, & 30. This gives a throughput of 2x3x(20 or 25 or 30)/(3.6x6) ≈ (5.5 or 7 or 8.3) ppl/second

    Car occupancy is ~1.5ppl/car in the EU. Given that this is a german highway Average distance between cars ~3 lengths meaning 4x4.5m=18m/car. For a long time these roads had “no speed limit”, but the recommendation was ~130kph. Let’s conservatively use 120 & 100kph. This gives 1.5x3x(100 or 120)/(3.6x18) ≈ (7 or 8.3) ppl/second.

    Various things fudge the numbers in either direction, but that’s actually shockingly close between the two.

    • arin@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      You don’t enter or exit at 120kph so throughput is cut by the bottle neck of exiting/entering (also the reason why there’s traffic no matter the number of lanes, bottleneck is the throughput of entry exit creates the traffic stall