9 SS8 Erula-Tula 2

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

9.1 Stage Route Preview

Static map, significant corners highlighted:

9.2 Segmented Route

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

9.3 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 49.55099 71.92590 144.9774
2 1.00 44.37370 81.12914 144.9799
3 1.00 37.65892 95.59489 145.0000
4 1.00 30.57036 117.76112 145.0000
5 1.00 30.23432 119.06998 145.0000
6 1.00 49.19795 73.17378 145.0000
7 1.00 26.68185 134.92317 145.0000
8 1.00 35.21950 102.21611 145.0000
9 1.00 34.81800 103.39481 145.0000
10 1.00 29.61445 121.56229 144.9995
11 1.00 36.75788 97.93817 145.0000
12 1.00 54.60825 65.92410 144.2188
13 1.00 50.92473 70.69257 144.6680
14 1.00 49.46185 72.78336 144.9982
15 0.94 43.58331 77.64440 145.0000

Anticipated stage time: 10m 3.3s

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):

9.4 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.

9.4.1 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 9.1: Five longest straights (m)
Distance into stage (km) Straight length (m)
7.72 300
7.22 280
4.14 330
3.88 220
3.67 140

9.4.2 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-9)Stage segmented into 1km sections: SS8 Erula-Tula 2
km sinuosity straightness route elevationPlot convexityProfile
1 0.08475272 0.7220430
2 0.07954564 0.6538272
3 0.06740335 0.4069637
4 0.04569614 0.6071685
5 0.05008234 0.7078497
6 0.08378417 0.2489792
7 0.02228173 0.8915344
8 0.06177237 0.8326218
9 0.05775217 0.7490670
10 0.03971049 0.7022908
11 0.05579848 0.6366156
12 0.09811163 0.3304934
13 0.08912541 0.6214315
14 0.08815214 0.6018388
15 0.08250866 0.7312686