Peak time on a station

RJArtim

67 yrs old Trainz Veteran
Can anyone tell what the peak hours are for a station? I set my stations up with 90 or so people to initialize. But when I go to the station at 8 am there are only 15 people waiting. I assumed 8 would be peak. I also set them up for "double peak" which I assume means evenings get a peak time. Confusing stuff...
 
Good question - would like to know that myself.
You can, however, set the initial number of passengers waiting on a station as well as the maximum, so I tend to set mine for the desired peak flow.
Which stations are you using?
I mostly use the 4.5 build of <kuid2:122285:3401:22> AJS Invisible Station 1T 3.5
 
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Right now I am playing on Dave Snow's Cotton Belt. A varied sort of stations on it. As I said I set the initial amount of people around 90. Have not seen more than 25 at 10:30 AM.
 
Right now I am playing on Dave Snow's Cotton Belt. A varied sort of stations on it. As I said I set the initial amount of people around 90. Have not seen more than 25 at 10:30 AM.

I found I had to do this in the session and not on the route, otherwise, no changes are done.
 
If you dig into Wiki, there is somewhere an explanation of what they mean with station settings. Can't recall exactly where, but I have seen it. Indeed, the terminology and description of these settings is confusing, as it is most of the settings of industries (tons, units and other things), but if you get the hang on it, you can make it work.
 
I vaguely recall seeing official information on this some years ago but I can't remember if it was in the forum or the Wiki.
 
The station will only show the number of passengers that has been set up by the creator when they built the asset. All the other passengers are invisible and only represent a busy station and are available to load on to coaches. In your example the creator used 15 attachment points for passengers to appear on the platform. This is also the case for people who disembark from the coach, these are sometimes less than those waiting to board.
Peak periods create a boarding passenger increase in product than none peak periods meaning more passengers are produced to fill trains in the peak period. A main station may have two peak periods, people going to suburbs in the morning and those going home in the evening, while a small station may only have a morning peak as workers go to work
 
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Do you know what time periods are used? Morning and evening is pretty vague. Do the peaks start and stop at certain times?
 
The percentage of passengers generated is defined in the script passengerstationinfo.gs. The default values are (hour and percentage):
Code:
Time AM_PEAK PM_PEAK DOUBLE_PEAK
 0 -    5       5       5
 1 -    5       5       5
 2 -    0       0       0
 3 -    5       5       5
 4 -   20      10      20
 5 -   55      10      55
 6 -   90      10      90
 7 -  100      10     100
 8 -   90      10      90
 9 -   65      10      65
10 -   50      10      50
11 -   40      20      40
12 -   35      30      35
13 -   30      40      40
14 -   30      60      60
15 -   25      80      80
16 -   20      95      95
17 -   20     100     100
18 -   15      90      90
19 -   15      55      55
20 -   10      35      35
21 -   10      20      20
22 -   10      10      10
23 -    5       5       5
Peter
 
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