Morten,
(posted to UTSG for info)
On Saturday, Sep 25, 2004, at 09:08 Europe/London, Morten Vesterager
wrote:
> I'm recently working on a thesis (9th semester thesis in Geography at
> Roskilde
> University, Denmark) about the speed of Light Rail on the so-called
> "Nørrebro-street coridor" in North West Copenhagen, Denmark. The
> corridor is
> suggested to be banned for cars (except police, locals, taxi and the
> like).
>
> The thesis is written in coorperation with a small society
> (www.letbaner.dk)
> working for Light Rail in Denmark and I wonder if any of know
> something about
> how to calculate speed for Public Transport,- especially Light Rail in
> populated
> areas.
> Any information about litterature, formulas, research(ers) and the
> like is
> highly appreciated!
I used to work with a light rail planning team, and we used to use end
to end journey time to gauge average speed (eg if it takes 30 minutes
to travel 20km, then it's 40km/h), or point to point travel times,
which were used to compare to bus timetables or estimated drive times
to come up with a figure for time savings.
I know this might sound horribly simplistic to those used to devising
complex models, but that's really the way it's done (in the UK at
least)!
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