hourly running costs?

[Gazza]

Is there a rule of thumb for how much a QR citytrain service costs to run per hour?
Note, I need a per hour cost, not a per km cost.

[#Metro]

Not publicly but it shouldn't be hard to estimate based on two full time staff paid $100,000 each working full time for 38 hours would suggest:

$200,000 divided by 1950 hours/year

gives $102.56 per hour in labor costs.

If we then say that 80% of the running cost is labour and the rest overheads then that gives an estimate ballpark of at minimum $123 per hour.

I would say around $130-$150 per hour absolute minimum.

[SurfRail]

The labour costs are less significant for provision of rail services than 80% - I believe the draft CBC document sets out a bit on that point.

[Gazza]

In the end its $371 per hour as I discovered

Page 76  https://www.atap.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/m1-public-transport.pdf

[verbatim9]

Is there a rule of thumb for how much a QR citytrain service costs to run per hour?
Note, I need a per hour cost, not a per km cost.

Not publicly but it shouldn't be hard to estimate based on two full time staff paid $100,000 each working full time for 38 hours would suggest:

$200,000 divided by 1950 hours/year

gives $102.56 per hour in labor costs.

If we then say that 80% of the running cost is labour and the rest overheads then that gives an estimate ballpark of at minimum $123 per hour.

I would say around $130-$150 per hour absolute minimum.

The labour costs are less significant for provision of rail services than 80% - I believe the draft CBC document sets out a bit on that point.

In the end its $371 per hour as I discovered

Page 76  https://www.atap.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/m1-public-transport.pdf

That's why moving to driver only operations with ETCS 2 is so imperative.

[SurfRail]

Not really.  The labour cost is 60% or less for rail, halving the traincrew requirement will not yield double the frequency on a revenue neutral basis.  It would certainly help though.