Recommended viewing for contemplating the power of self-organisation and the hidden costs of top-down control. The best line in the commentary was this: "Road capacity might be limited but empathy is boundless."
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Hat tips: A blog around the clock and Richard Gayle
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Comments (3)
Echos the findings in the books Smart Swarm and Emergence.
Maybe the traffic engineers need a "Nudge"?
A warped side comment, I just read in The New Yorker that the head of Iran's PdD is in traffic management... no room for parody sometimes eh?
August 15, 2010 17:25 Permalink for comment
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Time to let go of the illusion of "control". Matthew E. May describes similar successful outcomes with self-organizing traffic in the book "In Pursuit of Elegance".
August 17, 2010 11:59 Permalink for comment
LEEDS CITY COUNCIL NEED TO SEE THIS VIDEO.
September 17, 2010 01:38 Permalink for comment