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Tutorial 2: Public Transport A line of LRT with five (5) stations will be constructed in a city. A forecast passenger demand is given below. (a) Compute the number of passengers between each pair of the stations for both directions. (b) In this LRT project, headway must not be less than 120 seconds and must not be greater than 300 seconds. All stations are designed to cater a train of 6 couches. The capacity of each couch is 280 passengers. Based on the maximum passengers in (a), compute headway possibilities and corresponding number of couches per train. You may use rail utilisation factor of 0.75 and load factor of 0.9.

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  • Tutorial 2: Public Transport A line of LRT with five (5) stations will be constructed in a city. A forecast passenger demand is given below.

    (a) Compute the number of passengers between each pair of the stations for both directions.

    (b) In this LRT project, headway must not be less than 120 seconds and must not be greater than 300 seconds. All stations are designed to cater a train of 6 couches. The capacity of each couch is

    280 passengers. Based on the maximum passengers in (a), compute headway possibilities and corresponding number of couches per train. You may use rail utilisation factor of 0.75 and load factor

    of 0.9.