Neil Williams wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:22:12 +0100, James Farrar
wrote:


I wonder how many of those are part-time workers. Several of my
university friends worked weekends at Bluewater to cut down on their debt.


Quite possibly. I'd not be in the least surprised if the same applied
to Heathrow.

Nor would I.

I'd suggest that a mere figure of how many people work in these places
isn't really meaningful, and that it would be better to consider the
maximum number working at any one time and/or the number of
full-time-equivalent workers.

James Farrar wrote:
Neil Williams wrote:

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:22:12 +0100, James Farrar
wrote:

I wonder how many of those are part-time workers. Several of my
university friends worked weekends at Bluewater to cut down on their
debt.


Quite possibly. I'd not be in the least surprised if the same applied
to Heathrow.

Nor would I.

I'd suggest that a mere figure of how many people work in these places
isn't really meaningful, and that it would be better to consider the
maximum number working at any one time and/or the number of
full-time-equivalent workers.

I'm not sure that would be helpful in transport planning. 10,000
full-time-equivalent jobs being filled by 15,000 people means a lot more
journeys to/from the place than if they were filled by 10,000 people.

Also part time workers tend to have less income than full time workers
and, I believe, are less likely to have a car and so are more likely to
need to use PT.

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regards

Stephen

In message , at 18:33:08 on Sun, 1 May
2005, James Farrar remarked:
I'd suggest that a mere figure of how many people work in these places
isn't really meaningful, and that it would be better to consider the
maximum number working at any one time and/or the number of
full-time-equivalent workers.

And it would be very odd if the figures quoted weren't those.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at
17:54:26 on Sun, 1 May 2005, Stephen Osborn
remarked:
I'm not sure that would be helpful in transport planning. 10,000
full-time-equivalent jobs being filled by 15,000 people means a lot
more journeys to/from the place than if they were filled by 10,000
people.

But you'd still have 10,000 people travelling to and from work in the
busy periods. The 5,000 people swapping shifts in the middle of the day
isn't so much of an issue.
--
Roland Perry