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Originally Posted by accord1999
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Haven't jumped through the hoops to download that report, but I'm skeptical of the methodology they used to arrive at those conclusions.
Did they actually account for acceleration and braking with every stop? How much time do busses actually spend cruising at 50kph on collector roads?
Do bus routes not already have buffer times/stops built in? We aren't exactly talking about Swiss trains here.
No doubt there would be some impact to bus routes, but they would fall within normal operational tweaks.
1 km at 50kph = 72 seconds
1 km at 40kph = 90 seconds
But the actual time loss for a bus would be far less considering they stop/start a few times each kilometer, eating up time/distance in the acceleration/braking phases that are identical regardless of the cruise speed.