http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-simple-solution-to-traffic

The Simple Solution To Traffic by C.G.P. Grey

TRAFFIC WAVES
http://trafficwaves.org/

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/why-do-we-have-to-slow-down-to-a-crawl-on-the-freeway-ar110152.html

Ive experienced a slow down wave on the western ring road

people slowing down to look at a truck that was broken down

CrazyNeutrino said:

TRAFFIC WAVES
http://trafficwaves.org/

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/why-do-we-have-to-slow-down-to-a-crawl-on-the-freeway-ar110152.html

Ive experienced a slow down wave on the western ring road

people slowing down to look at a truck that was broken down

The thing is, the slow down waves are self-sustaining. Even if there is a temporary disturbance due to the truck breaking down, and NO-ONE looks at the truck, there will still be a traffic snarl.

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

Neophyte said:

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

The new one gets them in an appropriate roundabout mood, ready to tackle the original one.

Neophyte said:

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

I never had a problem with Brittania myself..
(sister lived 100m from it)

Neophyte said:

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

they put traffic lights on a similar problem roundabout in Bunbury.

ChrispenEvan said:

Neophyte said:

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

they put traffic lights on a similar problem roundabout in Bunbury.

Wonder what would happen if it was a square?

here’s how it works….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJEFDCN07tI

Neophyte said:

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

circular thinking

Ian said:

Neophyte said:

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

circular thinking

well, yes, in a roundabout way.

ChrispenEvan said:

Ian said:

Neophyte said:

We have a roundabout in Adelaide that was cursed for decades as being a source of regular collisions, bottlenecks etc.

A couple of years ago some boffin figured out that the solution was…..an extra roundabout built adjacent to the first.

It seems to have worked.

circular thinking

well, yes, in a roundabout way.

It drives me circuitous.

The simple solution to traffic.

Traffic = const. * population / speed.

So the simple solution is to maximise road speeds.

Danger = const. * Traffic * Speed
= const. * Population * speed / speed
=const. by Population

so reducing road speeds doesn’t make roads safer.

Simple.

dv said:

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-simple-solution-to-traffic

The Simple Solution To Traffic by C.G.P. Grey

Anyone know how to make graphics like this. I have several projects that I want to illustrate in this way, including a project displaying how to optimise traffic in an Australian city.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-simple-solution-to-traffic

The Simple Solution To Traffic by C.G.P. Grey

Anyone know how to make graphics like this. I have several projects that I want to illustrate in this way, including a project displaying how to optimise traffic in an Australian city.

I’d use flash animation.

dv said:

I’d use flash animation.

Checks web:
“A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created by Adobe Flash (Now Adobe Animate) or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. … There are a number of other software packages available that can create output in the .swf format. Among these are GoAnimate, Toon Boom, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Toufee, Express Animator and Anime Studio. These front-ends often provide additional support for creating cartoons, especially with tools more tailored to traditionally trained animators, as well as additional rigging for characters, which can speed up character animation considerably.”

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/tutorials.html Overview — Take a one-minute tour.

Minimum payment of $276 only lasts a year. No thanks. For software, I either buy it outright or not at all.
Compare Microsoft Office, where a single payment of $179 lasts forever, and Office is far more useful than Animate.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

I’d use flash animation.

Checks web:
“A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created by Adobe Flash (Now Adobe Animate) or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. … There are a number of other software packages available that can create output in the .swf format. Among these are GoAnimate, Toon Boom, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Toufee, Express Animator and Anime Studio. These front-ends often provide additional support for creating cartoons, especially with tools more tailored to traditionally trained animators, as well as additional rigging for characters, which can speed up character animation considerably.”

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/tutorials.html Overview — Take a one-minute tour.

Minimum payment of $276 only lasts a year. No thanks. For software, I either buy it outright or not at all.
Compare Microsoft Office, where a single payment of $179 lasts forever, and Office is far more useful than Animate.

Flash sites crash a lot on my pc

CrazyNeutrino said:

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

I’d use flash animation.

Checks web:
“A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created by Adobe Flash (Now Adobe Animate) or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. … There are a number of other software packages available that can create output in the .swf format. Among these are GoAnimate, Toon Boom, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Toufee, Express Animator and Anime Studio. These front-ends often provide additional support for creating cartoons, especially with tools more tailored to traditionally trained animators, as well as additional rigging for characters, which can speed up character animation considerably.”

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/tutorials.html Overview — Take a one-minute tour.

Minimum payment of $276 only lasts a year. No thanks. For software, I either buy it outright or not at all.
Compare Microsoft Office, where a single payment of $179 lasts forever, and Office is far more useful than Animate.

Flash sites crash a lot on my pc

In this case you’d be using Flash to, ultimately, generate a gif. Gifs don’t crash.

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

mollwollfumble said:

Checks web:
“A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created by Adobe Flash (Now Adobe Animate) or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. … There are a number of other software packages available that can create output in the .swf format. Among these are GoAnimate, Toon Boom, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Toufee, Express Animator and Anime Studio. These front-ends often provide additional support for creating cartoons, especially with tools more tailored to traditionally trained animators, as well as additional rigging for characters, which can speed up character animation considerably.”

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/tutorials.html Overview — Take a one-minute tour.

Minimum payment of $276 only lasts a year. No thanks. For software, I either buy it outright or not at all.
Compare Microsoft Office, where a single payment of $179 lasts forever, and Office is far more useful than Animate.

Flash sites crash a lot on my pc

In this case you’d be using Flash to, ultimately, generate a gif. Gifs don’t crash.

O RLY?…

http://giphy.com/gifs/cheezburger-car-crash-dummies-iEd5SratrXytW

Rev will never go for this…

diddly-squat said:

Rev will never go for this…

You’re right. I’d do it in Excel with VBA, not Flash.

Not saying that’s the best way to do it, but for me it’s the easiest.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/australian-work-commutes-compared-to-europe-north-ameica/104058132

So firstly whoever designed those charts is an absolute …

… and secondly

The average Australian worker spends more than an hour a day stuck in rush-hour traffic, fighting for a seat on the bus or trying to zone out on the train.

seems to understate

For example, workers averaged a weekly commuting time of about 3.7 hours just more than two decades ago. That grew to about 4.5 hours in 2017.

if it is indeed true …

… but anyway there’s a pretty simple solution to this garbage, just Remote Working From Home using this fantastic new invention called “internet” and your commutation time will be measured in milliseconds¡

(Still not convinced about the 3.7 hours 4.5 hours maybe they mean that amount divided by 6¿)

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/australian-work-commutes-compared-to-europe-north-ameica/104058132

So firstly whoever designed those charts is an absolute …

… and secondly

The average Australian worker spends more than an hour a day stuck in rush-hour traffic, fighting for a seat on the bus or trying to zone out on the train.

seems to understate

For example, workers averaged a weekly commuting time of about 3.7 hours just more than two decades ago. That grew to about 4.5 hours in 2017.

if it is indeed true …

… but anyway there’s a pretty simple solution to this garbage, just Remote Working From Home using this fantastic new invention called “internet” and your commutation time will be measured in milliseconds¡

(Still not convinced about the 3.7 hours 4.5 hours maybe they mean that amount divided by 6¿)

Thanks for pointing that out, we misread one bit and clearly we work 0.8333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 days a week but otherwise WTF still.

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/australian-work-commutes-compared-to-europe-north-ameica/104058132

So firstly whoever designed those charts is an absolute …

… and secondly

The average Australian worker spends more than an hour a day stuck in rush-hour traffic, fighting for a seat on the bus or trying to zone out on the train.

seems to understate

For example, workers averaged a weekly commuting time of about 3.7 hours just more than two decades ago. That grew to about 4.5 hours in 2017.

if it is indeed true …

… but anyway there’s a pretty simple solution to this garbage, just Remote Working From Home using this fantastic new invention called “internet” and your commutation time will be measured in milliseconds¡

(Still not convinced about the 3.7 hours 4.5 hours maybe they mean that amount divided by 6¿)

Showing your love of HISTORY again I see mr SCIENCE.

1/2 an hour each way to work and back seems pretty good to me.

Although I have worked from home for the past 24 years, so my trip is a little shorter.

The Rev Dodgson said:

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/australian-work-commutes-compared-to-europe-north-ameica/104058132

So firstly whoever designed those charts is an absolute …

… and secondly

The average Australian worker spends more than an hour a day stuck in rush-hour traffic, fighting for a seat on the bus or trying to zone out on the train.

seems to understate

For example, workers averaged a weekly commuting time of about 3.7 hours just more than two decades ago. That grew to about 4.5 hours in 2017.

if it is indeed true …

… but anyway there’s a pretty simple solution to this garbage, just Remote Working From Home using this fantastic new invention called “internet” and your commutation time will be measured in milliseconds¡

(Still not convinced about the 3.7 hours 4.5 hours maybe they mean that amount divided by 6¿)

Showing your love of HISTORY again I see mr SCIENCE.

1/2 an hour each way to work and back seems pretty good to me.

Although I have worked from home for the past 24 years, so my trip is a little shorter.

Who doesn’t love a good PHYSTORICS though.

We but stand on the shoulders of giants and find shifting work times away from peak to be another acceptable solution to long commutation.

SCIENCE said:

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/australian-work-commutes-compared-to-europe-north-ameica/104058132

So firstly whoever designed those charts is an absolute …

… and secondly

The average Australian worker spends more than an hour a day stuck in rush-hour traffic, fighting for a seat on the bus or trying to zone out on the train.

seems to understate

For example, workers averaged a weekly commuting time of about 3.7 hours just more than two decades ago. That grew to about 4.5 hours in 2017.

if it is indeed true …

… but anyway there’s a pretty simple solution to this garbage, just Remote Working From Home using this fantastic new invention called “internet” and your commutation time will be measured in milliseconds¡

(Still not convinced about the 3.7 hours 4.5 hours maybe they mean that amount divided by 6¿)

Thanks for pointing that out, we misread one bit and clearly we work 0.8333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 days a week but otherwise WTF still.

Now given the article a quick scan.

They did a great job of using graphics to conceal information rather than reveal it.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Now given the article a quick scan.

They did a great job of using graphics to conceal information rather than reveal it.

I did like the way that they used graphs to compare other countries’ figures with Australia’s figures, even though those graphs did not show Australia’s figures.

No molly-coddlingthe statistically-iliterate; go away and work it out for yourselves, yer lazy slugs.

captain_spalding said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Now given the article a quick scan.

They did a great job of using graphics to conceal information rather than reveal it.

I did like the way that they used graphs to compare other countries’ figures with Australia’s figures, even though those graphs did not show Australia’s figures.

No molly-coddlingthe statistically-iliterate; go away and work it out for yourselves, yer lazy slugs.

:)

The other thing is, in London a commute time of over an hour is absolutely standard for all the peasants living in the outer suburbs, but a large part of the population don’t work in London, and all the other cities are much smaller.

The Rev Dodgson said:

captain_spalding said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Now given the article a quick scan.

They did a great job of using graphics to conceal information rather than reveal it.

I did like the way that they used graphs to compare other countries’ figures with Australia’s figures, even though those graphs did not show Australia’s figures.

No molly-coddlingthe statistically-iliterate; go away and work it out for yourselves, yer lazy slugs.

:)

The other thing is, in London a commute time of over an hour is absolutely standard for all the peasants living in the outer suburbs, but a large part of the population don’t work in London, and all the other cities are much smaller.

But apart from that, yes Australian cities do need to do a better job of providing high speed public transport from their outer suburbs.