Cars per hour (Function Value)

Function value	Attribute	Unit	Range	Description
Cars per hour	NUM_CARS	vehicles/h	0 to 1.7976931348623157E308	How many cars move over any given cross-section of the road per hour, spread across all lanes.

This is mostly relevant for roads, intersections, bridges. This affects the visualization, and is part of the traffic model, in turn affecting the calculations for the Traffic Overlays.

The value can be a single constant for the entire day or an Attribute array of 24 hourly values.

Values

• The default values for this Function Value are based on values selected for an acceptable visualization.
• Buildings generated during project creation can have their values overwritten based on data from INWEVA, NSL or Infomil, in that order of occurrence.

Used for

• Traffic Model
• Traffic visualization
• Traffic Overlay
• Traffic Density Overlay
• Traffic Noise Overlay
• Traffic NO2 Overlay

Model-specific articles

• Num cars (Traffic Overlay)
• Num cars (Traffic Density Overlay)
• Num cars (Traffic Noise Overlay)
• Num cars (Traffic NO2 Overlay)

Notes

• When considering doing traffic calculations outside The Netherlands, always provide roads with intensity values before inspecting the calculation results. Do not rely on the defaults.

See also

• Buses per hour (Function Value)
• Trucks per hour (Function Value)
• Vans per hour (Function Value)
• Function Values (Traffic visualization)

References