subway safety
Made some numbers crunching... ExpressABC method gives next to nothing in improvement of Express method. But complexity of that ABC method is unbelievable. 23% of improvement for Express method is pretty good but it's only for the Finch-Bloor stretch.
Victor,
This was wonderful work. You got it.
This is my last TTC map design but instead, I call it instead of ABC , it is 1, 2 3, And the instrustruction are basic for all directions.
You simply depart from the station number you need to arrive at during rush hour.
Example: If you need to arrive at a station 1 , you must depart from a station 1, If you need to arrive at a station 2, you depart from a station 2, and if you need to arrive at a station 3, you depart from a station 3.
Within the system you obviously have certain ALL TRAIN STOPS STATIONS.
Once again, this is station skipping pattern is only for Rush Hour. There also is a particular pattern for Rush Hour Going Home too.
Next week, Mr. Gary Webster will be learning of this for the first time, along with Mr. Steven O'Brien.
Of course station skipping can only be offered with platform safety. Which is the key that I hold.
There are other benefits to "separated passenger flow", which I reserve to my meetings with Gary and Steve separately.
Check out the Chile System. There is an article in Railpage, that explains how station skipping has achieved higher capacity improvement to that of ATO, and they only use a every second stop method. They also provide it without platform safety, so presumably all their station platforms are pretty large, and further limits the speed to which train by-pass a station.
The other most important piece that people seem to be missing is the fact that Toronto is SHUT DOWN an average of 2.23 hours every single week, due to deaths, accidents, track fires, door jams, unauthorized persons in the pit etc.
SAFETY SOLVES ALL OF THAT. So the solutions are many. But the key ones are RELIABILITIY, EFFICIENCY AND COST SAVING. hUMAN LIFE, IS THE EXTRA BONUS.
bY THE WAY, WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH 20 MINUTES, FROM fINCH TO yONGE AND bLOOR?
Also, I am looking for an article that I read, which I am trying to refind, Can anyone help me. The article suggests, that unless Yonge and Bloor is fixed, ie. a double sided platform or whatever, then and only then can the benefits of ATO can be derived.
Sharon.