[sustran] The ideal way of traffic regulation

[eric.britton at free.fr]

On Behalf Of chesterdh
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 9:00 AM
To: NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com
 

With so many difficulties due to the congestion of traffic, there 
should be a more radical solution out there, that can answer the 
needs of the communters. May I suggest that companys, city planners 
and governers are not taking this matter seriously enough. 

Firstly, why do we need so much concentration of human resources in 
the town centers? With our current 70% workers in service jobs and 
less that 20% in actual production or maintanence processes, it 
seems to me that a more efficient system for working communications 
via the internet is all that is required, to solve the traffic 
problem. The need to all meet in one place, is solvable with more 
video linkages as well as oral ones.

Secondly, we should be organized so that the more congestion we 
cause, the more we should have to pay for bringing our vehicles into 
the middle of town. Obviously the scale of costs should be in 
proportion to the size of the vehicle, with feet and mono-cycles 
going for free and two-wheel bicycles having a significant advantage 
over sedans. I have yet to understand why the combination of 
technology plus sociology that we presently can use, results in the 
average city car or taxi having a mass of 1.5 tons and a plan area 
greater than shade under a mid-day elephant, being commonly used to 
transport one business man/woman weighing less than 200 lbs and 
comfortably occupying a horizontal surface of about 3 square feet.

Thirdly the hours that we use don't have all to be at once. Surely 
the charges for the use of the communications system of roads could 
be adjusted to suit the times when the demand for them is the most. 
After all this is what economics is all about, the fact that high 
demand raises the calling price.

With improved train services and passenger converters of the kind 
found at airports, it should be possible to reduce the demands on 
the roadways and highways. At present the city concentrations remind 
me of a lot of mindless lemmings all rushing to commit suicide at 
the same time. Could we not delay this proces for a longer and 
happier kind of existance by the recognition of the forces of 
economics as suggested above, being able to be felt in its their 
natural filtering out of the degree of necessity of journey being 
paid for in proportion? 

It all reminds me of the posters seen in London during the second 
world war "Is your journey really necessary?"

 

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