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Kensington Olympia district line
On 14 Mar, 11:25, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:11:09AM +0000, Steve M wrote: Fair enough, but those are the official 2006 figures (which now seem to be available to the public on the TfL website). Measured how? *By tickets sold at that station? *Barrier entries/exits? Both those will be too low - the latter especially, because at least when I've gone there for an exhibition they've just opened the gates and let everyone flood in and out unimpeded. -- David Cantrell |http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david * Languages for which ISO-Latin-$n is not necessary, #1 in a series: * * Latin When I am sent to a station to count passengers, the normal process is to count the numbers Joining and Alighting (and sometimes On Train Departure) train by train. If these are the figures used then they could, in a few cases overstate exits and entries as anyone interchanging would be counted even though they don't actually leave the station. In some cases, at London Bridge for example, we sometimes count transfers between Eastern and Central, or at other locations we have done specific barrier counts, usually in 5 or 15 minute bands for the purposes of calculating passenger flows. Clearly a fully gated station should give you an ongoing idea of passenger numbes which "manual" checks should confirm. Even at fully barrier controlled stations, however, a lot of people with strange/non functioning tickets and special passes will be let through the gate by staff. Hence the need for a physical count from time to time. It should be pointed out that this is not an exact science - counting bobbing heads (or feet and dividing by 2) is not as easy as it might seem; but we do our best! MaxB |
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