[sustran] Another study says more roads = more traffic

[obwon]

Paul Barter wrote:
> 
> Dear SUSTRAN friends, I thought the following from STPP's bulletin may
> interest you. The study looked at the situation in the USA.
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> >TRANSFER
> >June 13, 1997
> >VOLUME 3, ISSUE 22
> >Electronic Edition
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> ...stuff cut....
> >
> >
> >New Study Finds More Roads Cause More Traffic

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  As the convienience of doing a thing rises the level of thought and
planning falls.  As the level of thought and planning fall it is likely
that efficiency will fall as well.  So it should come as little surprise
that inefficiency in this arena translates into extra trips/travel. 
Some of which is merely repeated travel since little thought or planning
was made before hand.

   When the matter of travel is more considerably difficult, the level
of planning and thought rises.  Under such beforehand considerations it
is likely that the utility of any planned trip will be increased to
approach it's maximum.  Therefore travel and trips get cut.  Ex.

 1.  I have to see Martha!  She will be at the mall hairdresser at 4pm.
 2.  Go to the mall and see Marth at 4pm, return home.
 3.  Discover you're out of coffee.  Back to the mall after 5.
 4.  Realize that you have to get kid from daycare, but the child seat
is in the garage. 
 5. Back home to get child seat -- go off to pick up child.
 6. Return home to monitor dinner, change childs clothes etc., until
pick up hubby at station at 6pm.

  If the convienience of making these trips was lowered in someway, bad
roads/routes slower speeds, congested roadways to name a few.  Then
planning would likely eliminate a few of these trips by forcing some
thinking towards combining them.  

 1. Make sure child seat is in the car before leaving to see Martha.
 2. Planning some shopping before leaving.
 3. Bring along childs change of clothes.
 4. Plan to eat out or perhaps introduce a brief delay of dinner.

   So that the plan would be to make one trip out and one trip back.

 Obwon