ION Stage I: what would you do differently?

[Bytor]

Speed can be improved even now, without changing any of the tracks or stations.

Just like all day GO service, I'll believe it when I'm actually sitting on the train moving faster than car traffic.

So I went and measured the steps along the ION LRT where the judged the inter-station path to be "not very bendy" (si scientifique, non?) such that it would not greatly impact maximum theoretical speeds.

The final column is the 0.4m/s² acceleration time rounded up to the next minute and then difference between that and the scheduled time in an attempt "steelman" the current schedule.

Since the scheduled times also include a 1 minute dwell at each station, unless I have made some huge error here there doesn't seem to be a lot of leeway to speed up the trains in the straight-a-ways since the difference is only 1 minute. I probably could have done 0.5m/s² acceleration, but that is awfully high for passenger trains, as some differences are 0, so I would guess those sections are already running that maximum possible speeds.



I used the spreadsheet I had originally made to check possible HSR speeds and times, later used to calculate GO Kitchener times.