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This is probably off-topic, but are they using different colors for male and female escalator users? Does it matter? They already have different graphics, but f
by unwind 10y ago
This is probably off-topic, but are they using different colors for male and female escalator users? Does it matter? They already have different graphics, but for some reason felt the need to make it really clear that there are different gendered people here, riding escalators? Very strange.
Also, it doesn't seem to address the "total time for the ride", the minimization of which is of course the reason why people want to walk in escalators. That's the egoistical reason, to minimize overall throughput is perhaps somewhat less interesting to each individual.
That said, optimizing the system as a whole for throughput is a good goal so perhaps it's time to change escalator culture!
- david90 10y agoya, I found that total unrelated either. Maybe they just wanted it to look more colorful...
- throwawayReply 10y agoThey could use the colours to indicate walking vs standing preference but instead chose to indicate gender for seemingly no reason. There should be three classes: 1. Wants to stand 2. Wants to walk 3. Wants to stand but will walk if lack of standing space. These might be in their simulation but it's not well explained. But the simulation isn't the main point, there was a real life study!
- justavoice 10y agomales are generally 10% larger than females, this makes the distribution easily visible.
- csomar 10y agoI wouldn't read too much into that. It seems they just wanted to make it more colorful.