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If you myopically look at the instantaneous usage of infrastructure then you could argue that most roads are pointless because they are, on average, empty. The
by hamdingers 9mo ago
If you myopically look at the instantaneous usage of infrastructure then you could argue that most roads are pointless because they are, on average, empty.
The bus might have less than 5 people on it at any given moment you observe, but over its >2 hour route it transports dozens or hundreds of people between stops.
- bombcar 9mo agoPassenger-mile vs vehicle-mile is a useful metric (you can add driver-mile if you want, or cost-mile) but you can probably do something similar with some measurement of storage space, too. A full minivan ranks surprisingly high on all of them, which is one of the reasons it's disappointing that carpooling and such aren't discussed as much anymore.