Transit platform clearance time calculator

Calculate ideal constant-flow clearing time and time including entered delay with your own figures.

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Examples

Examples

Try the starting example

Passengers to exit platform
500
Measured effective flow per open exit (people/second)
1.5
Open identical exits
3
Added observed pre-movement delay (seconds)
20
Ideal constant-flow clearing time (seconds)
111.111111
Time including entered delay (seconds)
131.111111

Try another scenario

Passengers to exit platform
501
Measured effective flow per open exit (people/second)
1.5
Open identical exits
3
Added observed pre-movement delay (seconds)
20
Ideal constant-flow clearing time (seconds)
111.333333
Time including entered delay (seconds)
131.333333
Calculation method

Calculation method

Ideal constant-flow clearing time (seconds)

Flow time=people/(perExitFlow×exits); add user measured delay.

Time including entered delay (seconds)

Flow time=people/(perExitFlow×exits); add user measured delay.

Symbols and units
a
Passengers to exit platform
b
Measured effective flow per open exit (people/second)
c
Open identical exits
d
Added observed pre-movement delay (seconds)

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Assumptions & limits

Assumptions & limits

  • Illustrative homogeneous flow only; no crowd dynamics, queue interactions or evacuation safety certification. Supported limits: All required fields must be finite values of the exact declared type and within displayed bounds. Lists contain1–1000 finite numbers. JSON tables are numeric rectangular rows, at most100 rows and30 columns; individual tools have stricter shape/domain constraints. Illustrative homogeneous flow only; no crowd dynamics, queue interactions or evacuation safety certification.
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