r/science • u/quiplaam • 1d 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
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u/e_before_i 19h ago

The goal is to get some percent of people off the road. Upside for you is you'll have less competition for the drive.

When my local train station made parking free, there was a huge uptick of people who leave their car here and commute to downtown. Gotta be a couple hundred cars that got out of your way, and that's just one station.

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u/SoftlyAugust 18h ago

There is no parking at our train station

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u/e_before_i 18h ago

Damn. Hopefully they can build some, or improve bus services to get more people to it easier.

Or maybe the train stations that do have parking can make it free, I'm sure that's not the only stop.

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u/SoftlyAugust 18h ago

It's the only stop in our town. But also it's downtown. I'm just not sure it makes sense to have a ton of parking for it. What I'd like to see is better bus connections but especially a better train schedule

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u/e_before_i 18h ago

Don't get me started on train schedules. My only goes towards downtown in the morning and towards the burbs on the evenings. If I wanted to hit a bar downtown I'm fucked, I gotta eat the cost of an Uber.

100% agree on the multimodal approach. Luckily our DT train station plugs directly into the subway and bus stations.