Comments on: Conveyor City http://www.howwedrive.com/2010/07/12/conveyor-city/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 23 May 2012 15:37:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Levinson http://www.howwedrive.com/2010/07/12/conveyor-city/#comment-15197 David Levinson Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:28:10 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=1590#comment-15197 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". 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”.

]]> By: paul g. mattiuzzi http://www.howwedrive.com/2010/07/12/conveyor-city/#comment-15187 paul g. mattiuzzi Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:49:42 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=1590#comment-15187 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. 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.

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