@ksmith
I think that the other lesson here is to consider context before applying
rules. The pass-on-the-left rule makes sense on most, if not all BART
escalators, but not so much in Holborn Underground station.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
> The underground experiment i
The underground experiment is interesting, but it's critical to understand
the context. They targeted escalators that are so steep and long that
people were choosing not to walk up them. Thus, there would be many unused
half-steps on the walking side, which is clearly wasteful.
At every BART stati
Thanks for the link! Interesting stuff,
Aside from being another example of counterintuitive realities about
bottlenecks in complicated systems, I don't really know how this helps or
adds to the conversation other than being pretty neat, but I recently heard
this was also a thing:
http://www.techn
An experiment in the London Underground yielded a similarly
counterintuitive result to the Kanban tenet that we finish more by working
on less at any given time.
The Transport for London was able to substantially increase throughput of
passengers exiting the subway by converting the walking lane o
