I’d have thought the capacity could be calculated by seeing how many you could fit in there before they ran out of air and stopped breathing ;-)
Stefan From: David Locklear [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:50 PM To: CaveTex Subject: [Texascavers] Re: tourist capacity Since tourist have to stay on the trail, you first have to calculate the area in square meters of the entire trail. Presume it is just a very long rectangle. Then imagine each tourist is a circle with a diameter of 1 meter. So how many 1 meter diameter circles can you fit in the imaginary rectangle ? Then you have to multiply number that by 0.80 because 20 % of the passage will have natural and man-made obstacles. Then you have to consider are there wheel-chaired tourist. And is the path one-way or two-way or three-way. And you have to figure in how many restrooms you have, how fast the tour moves. And how many emergency exits are there ? Or if there is a "teleferico" or elevator. And with any math #, you just have to multiply or divide the traditional pi number to get a number that sounds logical. The number always comes out to be around 100, plus or minus one. David Locklear -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
