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How to estimate the number of Taxis outside Delhi Airport ?

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Ian
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on Nov 11, 2020
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First: You MUST clarify if it's at a certain time of day/night. i.e. noon, midnight, etc. Is this at any given point in time?

Top-Down

Population of Delhi/Surrounding areas residents...subset of which would be flying in/out

PLUS population of daily visitors (business / tourist)

% of each group that would need taxis

Multiply out

 Divide by time period unit 

Bottom-up

When you've been to a large airport, how many landings have you see on the board at one time?

How many per hour?

How many peak hours per day?

How many non-peak hours per day and what % of peak would this be?

 # of people in an average plane (i.e. landing)

Multiply out

 Divide by time period unit 

Is Delhi Airport probably larger or smaller than this sample airport (multiply by that factor)

Clara
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on Nov 12, 2020
McKinsey | Awarded professor at Master in Management @ IE | MBA at MIT |+180 students coached | Integrated FIT Guide aut

Hello!

Have a look at this free case I did for the PrepL library, that is precisely about flights stimation in an airport.

From there it´s easy to extrapolate any "fleet" estimation I hope.

https://www.preplounge.com/en/management-consulting-cases/candidate-led-usual-style/intermediate/covid-19-impact-on-heathrow-airport-197

Hope you find it useful!

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