Re: CityRail On Time Running

Richard Ogilvie (richie@connexus.apana.org.au)
28 May 1997 09:55:54 GMT

In article <338b9112.107062272@news.magna.com.au>,
billbolton@onaustralia.com.au says...
>
>On Tue, 27 May 1997 01:53:49 GMT, trainman@cia.com.au (David Johnson)
>wrote:
>
>>CityRail's On Time Running for this morning's peak:
>>
>>Suburban: 94.54% (within 3 minutes)
>>Intercity: 100% (within 5 minutes)
>>
>>
>>For the suburban system, only 2.55 trains need to run late to lose 1%
>>of the on time running. For the afternnon peak, only 1.94 trains need
>>to run late.
>
>Just as a matter of interest, does the "On Time Running" figure
>include the time points missed by cancelled or short worked trains, or
>are those time points just quietly dropped from the target?
>

My boss told me that the PTC love days when strikes cause the cancellation
of all trains - those are the days on which they achieve 100% on time
running!

Cheers

Richard.