Project planning worksheet
Lane and Throughput Planning Worksheet
A transparent demand-and-capacity worksheet for comparing lane concepts without turning vendor cycle rates into guaranteed real-world throughput.
How to use it: copy the prompts into the project brief, record the source and owner for every answer, and leave unknowns open. Do not substitute assumptions for manufacturer data, code review, or field verification.
Demand window
- □ Count arrivals by user type in the actual peak 5-, 15-, and 60-minute windows.
- □ Separate employees, visitors, contractors, deliveries, accessible-route users, and exception cases.
- □ Record arrival pattern, queue tolerance, operating hours, staffing, and growth scenario.
Service assumptions
- □ Time credential presentation, authorization, passage, barrier reset, denied access, tailgating alarm, and visitor resolution separately.
- □ Label every capacity figure with test method, source, configuration, and date.
- □ Model normal, degraded, peak, event, and evacuation conditions; do not average away bursts.
Lane plan and validation
- □ Allocate standard, accessible, visitor, service, and bypass capacity and document shared-lane assumptions.
- □ Check queue spillback against doors, elevators, screening, sidewalks, and egress paths.
- □ Pilot or simulate the proposed workflow, record observed results, and retain contingency space where uncertainty remains.