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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 317221" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>I agree with you. My hope is that a more automated time study will allow us to do many, many studies in a short period of time. The time study is supposed to measure a normal day (note, not perfect, just normal). So any time study on a snow day for instance, would not be valid. Ditto if you have a downtown route and downtown is all torn up that day. What I can accept as a time study is limited by who I can get to ride with you for a day or two. Now, let's say instead of riding with you, I run automated studies on you for 30 consecutive days. Then I look at those days and check your over and under allowance. I pay special attention to the really high days, make sure you did not have a breakdown, and yes, make sure you did not do something silly like drive 10 miles and have 30 minutes between stops for no reason. Likewise I look very closely at any really under allowed days and make sure something is not out of whack there. Now, any days for which I find a big anomaly, I throw out. I then take an average from what is left. Would that not get me fairly close to a normal day for your route?</p><p></p><p>To be honest, I do not know if this is the strategic plan for these GPS time studies. But I do know they put this sort of thing in the realm of possibility. So, maybe. We can always hope...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 317221, member: 14596"] I agree with you. My hope is that a more automated time study will allow us to do many, many studies in a short period of time. The time study is supposed to measure a normal day (note, not perfect, just normal). So any time study on a snow day for instance, would not be valid. Ditto if you have a downtown route and downtown is all torn up that day. What I can accept as a time study is limited by who I can get to ride with you for a day or two. Now, let's say instead of riding with you, I run automated studies on you for 30 consecutive days. Then I look at those days and check your over and under allowance. I pay special attention to the really high days, make sure you did not have a breakdown, and yes, make sure you did not do something silly like drive 10 miles and have 30 minutes between stops for no reason. Likewise I look very closely at any really under allowed days and make sure something is not out of whack there. Now, any days for which I find a big anomaly, I throw out. I then take an average from what is left. Would that not get me fairly close to a normal day for your route? To be honest, I do not know if this is the strategic plan for these GPS time studies. But I do know they put this sort of thing in the realm of possibility. So, maybe. We can always hope... [/QUOTE]
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