Capacity

How do you Calculate the hourly Capacity of a roller Coaster?

Find out how many trains can run in an hour ( (60min/ride time) times the number of trains) and multiply it by the max number of people in a train. This sounds like it makes sense to me.

or you can just count the number of trains/riders/whatever leave the station in a ten minute period and then multiply it by 6. That would be more of an estimation though.

What I always do to calculate ride capacity is this... sit in the first train, and start a timer as it is leaving the station. When the same train completes the whole circuit, and leaves the station again, stop the timer. Now take the # of seconds that it took for the circuit, and divide it into 3600. This gives you the amount of circuits that the coaster completes per hour. Next, muliply the number of passengers per train times the number of trains. This gives you tht total number of riders per circuit. Now multiply the number of circuits per hour times the number of riders per circuit, and voila! Riders/hour.

Wtf, is there a way of doing in my head without it exploding?



I think your bullshitting me.... I tryed with IJST and it says It does 2.8 circuits per hour?!?

Originally posted by screamomatic

Wtf, is there a way of doing in my head without it exploding?



I think your bullshitting me.... I tryed with IJST and it says It does 2.8 circuits per hour?!?

you must of done something wrong. cjd's way is EXACTLY how i do it, and it works everytime for me. if you send me your desired track i can figure it out for you. (raganblink@msn.com)

[hyyyper]

i always use this formula:

3600 / (interval in secondes between one and the next train * riders per train)

I'm not talking about NL coasters, I mean in real life.. part of being a "ride attendant" is calculating the Hourly Capacity.



Oh I see... # of seconds... hmm, I thinks me is watching too many cartoons, Thanks guys.



Never mind... I took IJST as an example, I took 64 seconds and divided it into 3600 and I got 0.016666666666666666666666666666667?!

Then I multiplyed 12 by 3 and got 36 riders per circuit, and then I multiplyed circuits into riders and got 0.36 riders per hour!!!

tell me I wrong!



btw, I used hyyypers way and it makes more sense, I got 720 riders per hour for a 60 second ride... okay.

[hyyyper]

YOU ARE WRONG

it's (3600 divided by the interval) * riders,

(3600/64)*36 = 2025 riders per hour


EDIT: what's IJST?

Now I know...

Btw, I think when they train me they'll tell me how to do Capacity anyway.

Oh and IJST means Italian Job Stunt Track at Canadas Wonderland.

[hyyyper]

^i should have known

[Dirk_Ermen]

Originally posted by screamomatic

Btw, I think when they train me they'll tell me how to do Capacity anyway.

sounds like you are going to work at paramounts [:)]

who ever sent me that track, you have a reply.

Yeah, that was moi, thanks, and yeah the negitive spike was a mistake, I don't plan on fixing it because it dosen't bother me.

lol. is that all hand smoothed? cause thats pretty good actually if it is pure hand made. AHG and CK that sh*t and youll get alot better tracks.

I don't use AHG or anything like that on my 'woodies', Just the normal track smoohter then hand smoothing from there, I'm not a big fan of steel coasters anyway... way too much competition.

People are too serious and forget it's just a sim.



w00t I made a page 2!!