Musically in Step
We’ve remarked here before on things like Japan’s ‘melody road,’ in which road grooves would play songs only at the proper driving speed, and here comes another form of musically-based behavioral modification, an intriguing transportation “nudge.” The benefit here is I suppose oriented more towards people’s health than actual energy savings (do escalators consume more energy with more passengers?), but it’s an interesting result in light of previous findings that only escalator queues of a certain length will compel people to the stairs (with the exception of efficiency nuts like myself, the frantic guy you see bounding down the stairs at the airport because I can’t stand waiting on the clogged escalators).
(Thanks Robert)
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October 10th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Love it!
October 14th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Changing environmental behaviors through creativity - social innovation at its finest!
Of this video, the No Impact Man says sustainable lifestyles can be fun too:
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/make-environmental-behavior-fun-makes-it-popular.html