[sustran] "Old Mobility = mechanical solutions to biological problems"

[eric britton]

From: Ann Hackett [mailto:aha at pacific.net] 
Sent: Sunday, 01 August, 2010 20:53


  Some thoughts on "Old Mobility = mechanical solutions to biological
problems."

1.  "Why the narrow binomial choices...?"  We're a product of our 
conditioning through experience, education and advertising.

2.  Those "mechanistic approaches" to maintaining our current system 
have caused problems for users and our environment but have served those 
who benefit from these approaches very well and they don't want it to be 
fixed.  Look at profits, advertising budgets, tax revenue, etc...

3.  Search for "ants + transportation" and "Ant Colony Algorithm" and 
find evidence in favor of biological traffic organization by ants with 
their highly developed social behavior.

4.  How to get a shift in character, away from artificially created 
desires of independence to highly developed social behavior?

5.  Currently our binomial choices are:
     Dependent         =  Public Transportation
     Independent       =  Private, Car Ownership

     The 3rd option is:
     Interdependent    =  Shared Transportation

6.  Decreasing the convenience of parking re-prioritizes the choices.