Originally Posted by
pmiranda
2-car trains should be able to run more often than 4-car trains and would never need "middle" car configurations, but as long as they buy enough cars to have one leaving every 5 minutes or less I won't really care.
5 min will be extremely long head way for airport shuttle. For LAX, I think they should aim for 60 seconds peak and 180 seconds off peak.
I think they have purchased enough train cars to run 4-cars at peak but we will see. This APM line will have extremely high ridership from day 1.