One Key to accomplishing the functional consistency station facilities will be the development of station-operating and passenger-handling procedures. will be a function of the overall high-speed train operating plan, which will be developed as the planning and design process progresses.
6.1.3 Peak Period Passengers
Public station areas are generally sized based on peak expected use, which is derived from estimates of peak train loads or peak period ridership. Ridership forecasts are approximate and will change over the duration of the project, requiring station requirements to be refined. The following methodology for temporarily distributing station patrons was developed in lieu of a more sophisticated approach. Until more precise estimates are available at a later stage of the planning and design process. Lt is an approximation derived from a compendium of other ridership estimates.