Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? Dyson Pete
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? Dyson Pete Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. We are not cargo. But the ways in which an engineer measures success - speed, journey…
Specifikacia Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? Dyson Pete
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? Dyson Pete
Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. We are not cargo. But the ways in which an engineer measures success - speed, journey time, efficiency - are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip.
As we near the practical, physical limits of speed, capacity and punctuality, the greatest hope for a brighter future lies in adapting transport to more human wants and needs. We choose how and when to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety - and many other factors that engineering equations don't capture at all. Behavioural science has immense potential to improve the design of roads, railways, planes and pavements - as well as the ways in which we use them - but only when we embrace the messier reality of transport for humans.
This is the moment. Climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and changing work-life priorities are