. The Street railway journal . ncome of the various railway systems in rela-tion to traffic density. When compared with Fig 2, it leads to theremarkable deduction that the maximum of receipts on all thelines under discussion lies between and 4, car kilo-meters; this diagram establishes the following values for trafficdensity in times of maximum income: Dresden (Deutsche Strass-enbahn), ips car kilometers per meter railway and 3 minutes(Dresdener Strassenbahn), 70 car kilometers and 5 minutes head-Vienna, 100 car kilometers. and minutes headway; Dresden(Dresdener Strassenba
. The Street railway journal . ncome of the various railway systems in rela-tion to traffic density. When compared with Fig 2, it leads to theremarkable deduction that the maximum of receipts on all thelines under discussion lies between and 4, car kilo-meters; this diagram establishes the following values for trafficdensity in times of maximum income: Dresden (Deutsche Strass-enbahn), ips car kilometers per meter railway and 3 minutes(Dresdener Strassenbahn), 70 car kilometers and 5 minutes head-Vienna, 100 car kilometers. and minutes headway; Dresden(Dresdener Strassenbahn), 70 car kilometers and 5 minutes head-way. In Breslau and Cologne the maximum may not have beenreached; at any rate the conditions are difficult to interpret owingto the irregular development of the operations. The maximum !Ehc Areas Correspond to □ surplusThe Operating Coefficient is shown in per cent V Taics I of Income. E3 IV Gcnl Expenses I Operating § „ glU Maintenance > s s I I 1 g g _ mf!ZZ. Relational. Gross receiptsto Traffic Density; . Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn H Wiener Tramway 0 Munchener TrauibahU x BreslauvrSlrasseubahn .. <k Duetsc-he Strassenbahn T ^Ihesilen Strassenbahn : Kolnei Mrassenbahn + B a / ■ -■sr 0 0 T —„ About 7 ! linules Ik Car Kilometers per meter Railway FIG. 4 2, and to state the result of this investigation, which may be ex-pressed as follows: The receipts per car kilometer increase rapidly at first withcar kilometers run, but soon reach a maximum, after which, with ~^~im, Vol. 11. Car Kilometers in Millions Street Railway Journal! FIG. 5.—GROSSE BERLINER STRASSENBAHN of income per car kilometer in these large cities is attained with anaverage car headway of about 5 minutes. Fig. 4 records the fact that the lines entered upontheir development with a traffic density of about 50car kilometers per meter railway or with a car head-way of from 7 to 8 minutes. The latter value co
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