• mindrover@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They’re measuring how many people can pass through a fixed point in space in an hour, not how long it takes one person to get from point A to point B.

    So not really time or energy, but quantity.

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      1 year ago

      Or throughput, which is important in areas with congestion, like busy streets and highways.