Below is a listing of attractions at WDW and their stats. The main purpose is to have a place with agreed upon throughput information, otherwise knows as "people per hour" or PPH.
Amongst Imagineers, they distinguish between the Theoretical Hourly Ride Capacity (THRC) in which everything is running with perfect and peak efficiency (every seat filled, no delays, etc....) and Operational Hourly Ride Capacity (OHRC) in which reality hits and you take into account empty seats, slow downs, and delays.
Determining THRC is relatively easy if you know exactly how quickly each vehicle or show 'launched', and you also know the capacity of each vehicle.
For example, let's say there were two riverboats that each took twenty minutes to complete its course with an extra 10 minutes to unload and reload.
Another way to determine the rate of launch is to simply time the launches. Get a stop watch and time them. If a vehicle launches every 30 seconds. Then that's 120 launches per hour. And if each vehicle had 20 seats, that's a THRC of 2,400 PPH. If you notice that most vehicles launch with only 16 passengers, then that's an OHRC of 1,920 PPH.
The following tables list the stats I could find for the rides. For many of them, I'm missing the number of vehicles on the ride in order to figure out the PPH based on the time-length of the ride.
Also included are the THRC and OHRC found in this blog: https://crooksinwdw.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/theoreticaloperational-hourly-ride-capacity-at-wdw/ The blogger acknowledges a lot of guesses on their part. Our insiders generally say that those numbers aren't too good. I've also included a column in which we got numbers from our insiders (mostly @marni1971), but, it's unknown whether those numbers are THRC or OHRC. Other sources:
Since this forum doesn't do tables or embedding of Google Sheets, what you'll see below are screen caps. Here below is the link to the full Google Sheet. It can be commented on, but not edited. The best way to play with the numbers yourselves is to download it into your own copy of Excel or spreadsheet. If you don't have your own spreadsheet program, you can copy it to your own Google Sheet drive to edit.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1enrAcUhBTsXcSQVAqamjnVaWBAu_M1rKe1UYF2pRXyk/edit?usp=sharing
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Amongst Imagineers, they distinguish between the Theoretical Hourly Ride Capacity (THRC) in which everything is running with perfect and peak efficiency (every seat filled, no delays, etc....) and Operational Hourly Ride Capacity (OHRC) in which reality hits and you take into account empty seats, slow downs, and delays.
Determining THRC is relatively easy if you know exactly how quickly each vehicle or show 'launched', and you also know the capacity of each vehicle.
For example, let's say there were two riverboats that each took twenty minutes to complete its course with an extra 10 minutes to unload and reload.
- Then each boat can 'launch' every 30 minutes.
- That's twice per hour per boat.
- With two boats, that's four launches per hour.
- If each boat held 300 people, that would be THRC of 1,200 PPH.
Another way to determine the rate of launch is to simply time the launches. Get a stop watch and time them. If a vehicle launches every 30 seconds. Then that's 120 launches per hour. And if each vehicle had 20 seats, that's a THRC of 2,400 PPH. If you notice that most vehicles launch with only 16 passengers, then that's an OHRC of 1,920 PPH.
The following tables list the stats I could find for the rides. For many of them, I'm missing the number of vehicles on the ride in order to figure out the PPH based on the time-length of the ride.
Also included are the THRC and OHRC found in this blog: https://crooksinwdw.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/theoreticaloperational-hourly-ride-capacity-at-wdw/ The blogger acknowledges a lot of guesses on their part. Our insiders generally say that those numbers aren't too good. I've also included a column in which we got numbers from our insiders (mostly @marni1971), but, it's unknown whether those numbers are THRC or OHRC. Other sources:
Since this forum doesn't do tables or embedding of Google Sheets, what you'll see below are screen caps. Here below is the link to the full Google Sheet. It can be commented on, but not edited. The best way to play with the numbers yourselves is to download it into your own copy of Excel or spreadsheet. If you don't have your own spreadsheet program, you can copy it to your own Google Sheet drive to edit.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1enrAcUhBTsXcSQVAqamjnVaWBAu_M1rKe1UYF2pRXyk/edit?usp=sharing
Jump to Magic Kingdom
Jump to Epcot
Jump to Hollywood Studios
Jump to Animal Kingdom
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