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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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ding to their possible maximum length of ride for farepaid, it does not show the on-and-ofi characteristics withthe desired degree of accuracy. To obtain this class oftraffic data, the company sends out observers to selectedpoints along a highway served by oiie or more bus routes tomake a count of the number of arriving, set down anddeparting passengers for each bus of each route. In itstranscribed, completed form as already shown in the routediversion map, this Bus Loading Diagram presents astatement of the number of buses that stopped every hour,of the average load that these buses carried when theyarrived, of the average number of patrons that they setdown and of the average number that they carried off aftertaking on new riders. From studies like this, the companyobtains an exact picture of the variations in traffic alongany desired thoroughfare. Such studies must be madeseparately for workdays and holidays; also for differentweather conditions, because a rainy day tends to divert
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OMNIBUS HEADWAY DIAGRAM, DERIVED FROM CHECKS, WITH STAMPED SYMBOLS TO SHOW SYNCHRONOUS ARRIVAL OF DIFFERENT ROUTE BUSES AT ONE PLACE AND IRREGULARITY OP BUS INTERVALS 714 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 54, No. 15 traffic to the underground lines Avhile fine weather naturallycauses fluctuations in the contrary direction. The studies of bus loading also include, at times, a checkof the time of passenger interchange. This period is con-siderably longer than on American street cars, as indicatedby the fact that 7222 pick-ups and 16,6G5 set-downs showedan average of 1.77 seconds per passenger. This comparesunfavorably with the record of one second or less per pas-senger on American prepayment cars obtained with thestraight 5-cent fare. However, the absence of prepaymenton the bus is more than set off by the very small platformof the bus and by the occupancy of most of the platformspace by the stairway and the conductor. Only one personcan board at a time and, contrary to the results with th

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