stoy@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agoHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?message-squaremessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up190arrow-down1message-squareHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?stoy@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-text
I mean in those areas where it just identical houses along a road in huge blocks. How would you realisyicly solve it?
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoCould just have a human driver. I think the impromptu routing would be the thing that works best for suburbs.
minus-squareLanternEverywhere@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 months ago3 human drivers 24/7 would be too expensive. And suburb subdivisions are perfect for autonomous systems, it’s a very unchanging route with rarely any other people or cars on the road and the speed limit is already capped at a very low number
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoYou want the shuttle available as completely as the bus. In a given neighborhood there could be many hours only a few / no people need the shuttle. It would be hard to staff. Be cooler to make a protected shuttle lane where the shuttle operates under very strict controlled parameters.
minus-squareUranium3006@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agodo that and make trips to or from a train stop half price to encourage using it as a last mile to funnel into a public transit system
Could just have a human driver. I think the impromptu routing would be the thing that works best for suburbs.
3 human drivers 24/7 would be too expensive. And suburb subdivisions are perfect for autonomous systems, it’s a very unchanging route with rarely any other people or cars on the road and the speed limit is already capped at a very low number
You want the shuttle available as completely as the bus.
In a given neighborhood there could be many hours only a few / no people need the shuttle. It would be hard to staff.
Be cooler to make a protected shuttle lane where the shuttle operates under very strict controlled parameters.
do that and make trips to or from a train stop half price to encourage using it as a last mile to funnel into a public transit system