Talk:Load factor

I think this is a suitable topic for an article, and while I agree it's just dictionary definitions at present, they're a useful start towards it. Please give me a couple of days to try. Andrewa 06:21, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

On further consideration, the mathematical definitions in the various fields have little in common! So it should be a disambiguation. Some articles will follow. Andrewa 06:42, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Hurry up already!

I'm pretty sure there's a difference between load factor and capacity factor for nuclear plants at least. Load factors at least can go over 100%. -Theanphibian ^{(talk • contribs)} 05:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Material for missing disambig entries

Following text was found in this disambig article; partially discussion and possible material for more entries in the disambig article on Load factor. But without references, not of much use. So I moved it to the talk page for future reference and inspiration. SchreyP ^(messages) 07:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

• Load Factor has been used in Less than truckload shipping by the use of Cube factors as defined in Dimensional weight.

Load factor/Cube factor impact:

• Flow statistic
• run weight factor
• depends on the configuration
• double trailers, rocky mountain doubles trailers, triples trailers on toll roads.
• (lane weight)/(max run weight)
• lane factor
• average across runs on a lane
• network
• use a mile weighted average sum across lanes
• sum((lane distance)*(lane factor))/sum(lane distance)
• Used as a decision statistic to TCON a shipment to a specific site.
• yard pressure