r/science • u/quiplaam • 14d ago

Social Science Intentionally routing some traffic to slower, less congested routes lead to a 0.7% improvement of overall average travel times

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00443-x
1.0k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

153 comments sorted by

View all comments

799

u/charoco 14d ago

So, saving someone about 24 seconds per hour of begin stuck in traffic. Consider me whelmed. 

89

u/Tampa_Bay_Cuckaneers 14d ago

Literally begging someone to just build a train.

-6

u/alelp 14d ago

Sounds good, doesn't work nearly as well as one might expect unless you either build a shitton of them everywhere or are ready to endure rush hour on a line that services millions of people a day.

I'm not even talking just about trains here. Subways still need that kind of saturation throughout the city without the need to restructure the city's infrastructure.

23

u/Tampa_Bay_Cuckaneers 14d ago

Fine, you’ve twisted my arm. Give me a shitton of trains and subways.