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Which has higher throughput?
by throwaway22032 2y ago
Which has higher throughput?
- oblio 2y agoFor moving people? It's laughably easy: the one with bike lanes, sidewalks, public transport. Cars are the least efficient form of transportation if you REALLY care about throughput.
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- throw0101b 2y ago> Which has higher throughput? For a 3.5m / 12' lane, you can move 6-8x more people via bicycle, and 7-10x more pedestrians, per hour, than via private motorized vehicles ("cars"): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_per_hour_per_direction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_per_hour_per_direct...
- oopsallmagic 2y agoYou can fit like 50 people on a bus, and maybe 10 in the equivalent space taken up by two SUVs. Seriously, how is this a question?
- erik_seaberg 2y agohttps://www.mikeontraffic.com/numbers-every-traffic-engineer-should-know/ https://www.mikeontraffic.com/numbers-every-traffic-engineer... says one lane peaks around 1,900 vehicles per hour. Even if we assume each vehicle only carries one driver, we need 38 busses per hour (one every 95 seconds!) to match that capacity. In practice we're lucky to see two busses per hour scheduled.