Originally Posted by
bzcat
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.
Everything I've seen so far has said 2 minute headway at peak hours, but without saying what those peak hours are.
Originally Posted by
lrdpenn
LAX is probably the airport with the longest passenger operating hours in the US. It's almost silly to separate "peak" vs "non-peak" given the APM needs to serve arriving and departing passengers (it will connect to metro, consolidated rental car, passenger dropoff/pickup, etc.) The only quiet hours at LAX are like 130am to 430am. Their current "peak" cutoff I think starts too late and ends too early.
"Peak" certainly runs at least til midnight. I get in at ~11pm pretty regularly and the airport is packed and they run insufficient buses out to the economy lot, so often they're full before they hit the south terminal complex. It got to where I have their phone number in my phone and just call as soon as a full bus blows past without an empty right behind it. They end up serving the south complex worse because people on the south side have to wait for a second bus to come (usually from the parking garage) and get all the way around. They should just be running twice as many buses, or run designated north and south complex buses from the structure whenever they're at peak.
Originally Posted by
LIH_LAX
That too -- if you look at the construction webcam on the LAWA website, there are a few spots where the people mover guideway was clearly built out of alignment with the columns. How you mess that up with as many checks and reviews as would happen on a project of this scale is beyond me.
The columns don't need to align with the guideway, they just need to transmit the load to the ground. It was built in an already fully developed area and "misaligned" columns are probably due to things that needed to be avoided on or under the ground.