Estimated Results After Applying Smooth Headway Feature

An example illustrates how the Smooth Headway option is applied on run times showing a large difference.

The following example is used: The highest running time from Node B to Node C for the first time period (6:00 - 9:00) is 7 minutes while in the next time period (9:00 - 12:00), it is 20 minutes. Node D is the build node.

The following table shows the estimated run times after the Smooth Headway option was applied to selected trips:

Table 1. Smooth Headway Options
Time Period Node A Node B Node C Node D Node E
8:50 - 3 7 5 5
8:55 - 3 7 5 5
Next time period
9:00 - 3 9 5 5
9:05 - 3 11 5 5
9:10 - 3 13 5 5
9:15 - 3 15 5 5
9:20 - 3 17 5 5
9:25 - 3 20 5 5