@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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 station I have been on, the walking side is as crowded as > the standing side. Changing the walking side to a second standing side > would clearly reduce overall throughput, AND frustrate people in a hurry. > That's a lose-lose proposition. > > The other plausible argument in favor of having everyone stand instead of > walk would be safety, but the experimenters didn't seem very interested in > that. > > Tying it back to software development, I guess I would take away this > lesson: Look for, and eliminate, waste. It's hard to go wrong doing that. > > > > Kevin Smith > Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Katie Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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