Cleaning

What this is

Cleaning and preparing the train for the next night of service, at a daily rate per coach over the operating days in a year.

Charged per coach, so a longer train costs proportionally more to turn around.

Cleaning and preparing the train for each night of service.

The formula

$$C_{clean} = c_{clean/day} \times n \times d_{op}$$

	Symbol	Meaning	Unit	Where it comes from
Input	c_clean/day	Cleaning and preparation rate per coach and day	€/coach/day	composition_type_cleaning_eur_day
Input	n	Coaches needed for the service	coaches	computed upstream
Input	d_op	Operating days per year	days/year	computed upstream
Result	C_clean	Annual cleaning cost	€/year	—

Feeds into: operator_fixed_total_eur

Found a mistake?

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