{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Capacity Utilisation","description":"Capacity utilisation – also called load factor – measures how much of a vehicle's, container's, vessel's or aircraft's available transport capacity is actually used. It is expressed as the ratio of carried weight or volume to total capacity, in per cent. As a metric in dispatching and transport management, it shows directly where revenue potential is lost: every unfilled loading unit and every empty run lowers utilisation and worsens the cost per shipment. In practice, a load factor of around 70","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","name":"Frachtportal Logistics Glossary","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary"},"url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary/capacity-utilisation","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-07-18T19:11:06.621964","citation":"https://kpidepot.com/kpi/load-factor-transportation","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/glossary/en/capacity-utilisation","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Capacity Utilisation · Capacity utilisation – also called load factor – measures how much of a vehicle's, container's, vessel's or aircraft's available transport capacity is actually used. · Quelle: https://kpidepot.com/kpi/load-factor-transportation"}