17 SS16 Sedini-Castelsardo 2

A quick review of the stage, detailing the overall route, the route in 1km sections, route elevation profile and route curvature profile.

17.1 Stage Route Preview

Static map, significant corners highlighted:

17.2 Segmented Route

1km route sections, aligned to read left to right; significant corners highlighted.

17.3 Speed Estimates

Estimates of speed along the route according to a very simple acceleration model.

Kilometer section speeds (kmtime is time in seconds to complete that segment; avspeed is in km/h):

kmsection section_length km_time av_speed maxspeed
1 0.99 30.7044861 116.07424 145.0000
2 1.00 32.1116673 112.10878 144.9996
3 1.00 40.4331451 89.03586 144.9829
4 1.00 31.6777999 113.64426 144.9987
5 1.00 39.6844189 90.71570 145.0000
6 1.00 30.3338974 118.67911 145.0000
7 1.00 35.3811198 101.74918 145.0000
8 1.00 34.0681452 105.67056 144.9756
9 1.00 35.0881889 102.59863 144.8633
10 1.00 42.7638379 84.18328 145.0000
11 1.00 44.7852031 80.38369 145.0000
12 1.00 33.0933003 108.78335 145.0000
13 1.00 35.8212263 100.49907 145.0000
14 0.00 0.2482759 0.00000 145.0000

Anticipated stage time: 7m 46.2s

Speed profile chart: this chart shows the anticipated speed over distance into route on a per kilometer basis (the green area is flat out, the pink is the sort of slow you see at a hairpin):

17.4 Elevation and Convexity Index into Route

Elevation and significant curvature vs distance into stage:

(Note that this uses a different curvature measure to the route plots; specifically, the curvature measure used here is the convexity index.)

Elevation delta signature — order the severity of height changes over each 10m section of the stage:

Split section elevation profiles can be found in the stage km section summary table.

17.4.1 Left and Right

How does the stage vary in terms of left and right turns?

Order the severity of right and left turns over each 10m section of the stage:

Kilometer segment convexity index signatures can be found in steg stage km section summary table.

Table 17.1: Five longest straights (m)
Distance into stage (km) Straight length (m)
9.60 170
5.65 100
4.73 130
0.73 90
0.56 90

17.4.2 Sinuosity and Straightness

Sinuosity and straightness are technical measures with specific defintions. They may or may not be that useful for route analysis in their current form. The intention is to try to find ways of identifying variously “interesting” kilometer stretches.

(#tab:sinuosity_table-17)Stage segmented into 1km sections: SS16 Sedini-Castelsardo 2
km sinuosity straightness route elevationPlot convexityProfile
1 0.04035462 0.7729290
2 0.04657646 0.7358656
3 0.06930178 0.6961825
4 0.04302472 0.8549395
5 0.06010004 0.2436769
6 0.04311257 0.8370928
7 0.06215342 0.7816188
8 0.05168966 0.9412491
9 0.05437592 0.9284103
10 0.07074367 0.6116420
11 0.07515273 0.4607177
12 0.04950471 0.6802137
13 0.05600005 0.5552319
14 NaN NaN