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Conveyor City

Over at the Slate Nimble Cities project, I discuss the suggestion from a few readers to install moving walkways in cities (as it turns out, an old idea).

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2 Responses to “Conveyor City”

  1. paul g. mattiuzzi Says:
    July 12th, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    Tom:

    Great idea, the Nimble Cities project at Slate!

    But it is thoroughly hobbled by an absolutely unusable interface. If we built transportation systems the way Slate built that web application, the world would look like L.A. during rush hour: broken.

    You should run it all over again, start from the beginning, with a way for people to actually view, read and discuss the ideas.

    paul.

  2. David Levinson Says:
    July 12th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    Seth Young, now at OSU, has also done some work on moving walkways, showing how people respond to moving walkways by slowing down, and so they net out to almost no travel time improvement:

    http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/43265-moving-walkways-slower-than-walking-say-scientists

    http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=453052

    Perhaps you should have another blog “How we walk”.

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