Originally Posted by
Greg Amy
Sorry, didn't mean to ignore it; there were just a lot of different ideas here (I'm reading them all) and I only chose to hit the highlights.
Your idea, in effect, is to use a different multiplier for FWD cars (if you back-calc'd what you're offering to do, it's as simple as instead of taking the 1.25 standard multiplier, making it something smaller.) This idea certainly has merit; after all, my whole premise is no different, other than I'm calculating the "subtractor" afterward instead of beforehand.
The only concern I have with such an idea is that it's a fairly radical departure from current practice. knowing the history of The Great Realignment", I'm loathe to offer such large departures from the norm; I suspect that many, if not most, ITAC and CRB members are still suspicious of the whole idea(l). On the other hand, convincing them to simply twiddle around with only one of the post-calc adders/subtractors is probably a far more attainable goal.
If the ITAC would be interested in entertaining such a thought, in lieu of doing a subtractor afterwards (and thus coming to a similar, if not exact, result) I think it's worth consideration. - GA