Varying Service Frequency Quoting the work of the Baltimore Transit
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Company, Mr. Mross said that an electronic machine had produced a time-table in 20 min. which would normally have occupied an expert several weeks. The system enabled service frequency to be varied in such a way that accommodation did not exceed demand.
Application of electronics could greatly assist in solving the problem of accurately matching crew rosters to vehicle rosters. Factors involved in producing duty rosters included the duty period, interval times, restrictions on split duties, length of intermediate breaks and lengths of separate duty periods. The effect of variations could be assessed without delay.
Traffic planning could be more accurately matched to an analysis of traffic requirements with the introduction of
electronic methods, which 4 could immediately show points of traffic density, variations in transfer between vehicles, length of passenger journeys, and division of passengers between fare scales, and so on. The machine could also be used to calculate optimum fares if these were derived from normal economic factors.