Why is Load Factor control important?
The extreme inefficiency of present low load factors is a major reason for many current difficulties, most of which could be overcome by scrapping much equipment and raising the operating load factors on the remainder to the highest possible degree. Rather than suffering loss from such action, the public would experience a considerable gain in services rendered. We could, for example, get just as much service from one-tenth of the existing number of cars on the road if we boosted the load factor on that one-tenth from the present five percent to only fifty percent of potential. 5.4.
