01-10-2018, 12:23 PM
(01-10-2018, 10:35 AM)Canard Wrote: Did you read all of the documents that P posted?
It’s an incredibly complex procedure and takes months. Many months. You’re making this sound like it’s insignificant and that’s absolutely not the case.
I’m talking about the burn-in procedure for new vehicles, not the system testing. Almost all the system testing can be done with a small number of vehicles. I believe the number is 3 according to Grandlinq.
For a new vehicle is it much more than testing that the vehicle works, including interactions with the signalling system, then running it for a few hundred kilometres to ensure it really works consistently? My point is that once the system commissioning is done, new vehicles can be added to the system in a week. Even if lots of new vehicles arrive all at once, they can be burned in simultaneously.
So burn-in, in which we operate each vehicle for an extended period of time, is not the concern; system commissioning might be, depending on exactly how long it takes. But system commissioning only needs the vehicles we currently have on site, so it should be proceeding at full speed. Then as the remaining vehicles arrive they can be burned-in, and opening should occur about a week after vehicle #12 arrives or even earlier if we decide to open with 15 minute service all the time with no enhancement in rush hour. Of course system commissioning also has to be complete for opening to occur so whether it is actually possible to open shortly after enough vehicles are on site depends on that.