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