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There’s something wrong with your numbers. 120kph for two minutes is 1km, or 250 4-meter cars, bumper to bumper. Four lanes, 4.2 occupants, that’s 16,800 passen
by mseebach 9y ago
There’s something wrong with your numbers. 120kph for two minutes is 1km, or 250 4-meter cars, bumper to bumper. Four lanes, 4.2 occupants, that’s 16,800 passengers per two minutes, which is a full order of magnitude more than a 12-carriage train packed with standing passengers[1] - and the people in the cars are all sitting down.
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_700 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_700
- djsumdog 9y agohttp://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/RPTD/RPTD%20Document%20Library/maximum-theoretical-person-capacity-24-hour-period.pdf http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/RPTD/RPTD%20Document%20Library/ma...
- schiffern 9y agoAhh, that explains it. The paper assumes a sane minimum of 1.6 seconds/car (aka 2250 pcphpl), but 4 m spacing at 120 kph would be 0.12 seconds/car.