innsertnamehere
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Assuming 4 trains are required to do 15 minute service (considering travel time is supposed to be 25 minutes, i think that number would be correct, as it would likely take 55 -60 minutes to do a round trip), and $400 an hour, then it takes $28,800 a day to operate, lets round up to $30,000 to account for getting to and from the yard (this gives each train 67 minutes a day to get to and from the yard). This means yearly operations cost $10,950,0000, assuming 2 million passengers yearly, that is $5.48 a rider. Accounting for $500 million capital costs, paid with 0% interest over 30 years, (haha ya right, but i'm not going to do those calculations right now) means $16,666,666 a year need to be paid to cover capital costs. Lets say $20 million yearly to account for interest. That means total yearly costs is $30,950,000, or $15.475 per passenger assuming 2 million per year. You will likely have more than 2 million riders for $15, so lets assume 2.3 million. you now have $34,500,000 to operate on, which probably helps with the fact that I low-balled operating costs, and didn't include things such as maintenance.
Also important to remember that airports do in fact have peak periods where the train will be much busier. even if the train isn't full all day long, as long is it is full at some point in the day, the size of the train is justified.
Also important to remember that airports do in fact have peak periods where the train will be much busier. even if the train isn't full all day long, as long is it is full at some point in the day, the size of the train is justified.
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