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The key is to have a regular interval timetable, with "pulses" to allow easy transfers: http://sydneyferry.blogspot.com/2017/09/six-benefits-of-regular-interva
by dustintrex 5y ago
The key is to have a regular interval timetable, with "pulses" to allow easy transfers:
http://sydneyferry.blogspot.com/2017/09/six-benefits-of-regular-interval.html?m=1 http://sydneyferry.blogspot.com/2017/09/six-benefits-of-regu...
The Swiss are masters of this. I recently had a complicated 4-leg journey from Zurich airport, from a mainline InterCity train to a rack railway up a mountain, and every single transfer was timed at exactly 5 minutes.
- mulmen 5y agoIn Seattle it helps to tell your bus driver you need to make a connection so they can honk at the bus in front of you to tell them not to pull away.
- innocenat 5y agoI have never been to Swiss, is every transfer the same difficulty? Having all transfer being exactly the same doesn't make sense to me. In Japan there is a predefined minimum transfer time between each lines, so the timetable use that to coordinate departure (and if incoming train is late, then the designated connecting train will wait that predefined time for connecting passenger)
- bobthepanda 5y agoSwitzerland does something called the takt, which I suppose in English would best translate in cycle. Swiss timetables are calculated so that trains make stops on a very consistent hourly, half hourly, or quarter hour cycle. Coordination points are at major hubs; every train shows up within the same five minute period, so one can walk down the stairs and head to a different platform to catch any possible number of trains that have stopped at the coordinated time.