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.technologyreview.com/view/412632/first-rule-of-ant-traffic-no-overtaking/
-Katie On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Grace Gellerman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 on the left of > the escalators to an additional standing lane like the traditional one on > the right. > > The experiment sought to change entrenched behavior as it tried to tackle > bottlenecks. Given that the capacity of these subway stations will be > challenged to process larger populations as technology improves (more > frequent trains, larger doors), finding a solution in behavior could be > more attractive than addressing one through infrastructure. > > TL;DR : not unlike the work that we do in developing software. > > > http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-a-standstill-why-tfl-stopped-people-walking-up-the-escalators > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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