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5.2 Customer need occurrences

During a contract period , there will be a number of occurrences of a need. If a customer need is assigned to a market segment, this means that on the average, each of the actors in the segment has that many occurrences of the need in the market scenario.

In figure 5.1 , we have defined the number of Traveler needs to be 10. This means that on the average, for each Traveler in the Travelers market segment the need to travel occurs 10 times in this scenario.