Comments on: Wikinomics to help solve traffic congestion

By: RalfLippold

RalfLippold — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:52:06 +0000

Hi Don,

These are really cool applications that just wait to be prototyped here in Dresden, a really innovatively driven city with creative entrepreneurs, in conjunction with http://senseable.mit.edu, IBM, http://www.widetag.com, T-Systems MMS and others, as well as the City Council of Dresden. The connector within the community will be a CoWorking space that will function as a facilitating hub for innovation for the future.

Would you assume this to become reality within 365 days?

By: Justin Peters

Justin Peters — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:19:09 +0000

As former Business Development Manager at Skymeter, I have to say thanks for the mention Don.

Until we realize that like any other resource, Road Capacity must be in some way rationed, and that the fairest way to ration a scarce resource is through Price, we will never cure Gridlock.

The economic theory has been around for 50 years since Transportation Planners and Economists began to really think about how to cure traffic congestion in places like New York City. Skymeter makes that economic theory implementable, in as flexible a way as public policy makers can imagine. The time has come to get smart about Road Use.

By: thomas falconer

thomas falconer — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:38:45 +0000

the most innovative, marvelous work on traffic is by tom vanderbilt and his book traffic: why we drive the way we do. and continues on his blog http://www.howwedrive.com/

a must read.

By: observer

observer — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:31:10 +0000

1. observer August 13th, 2009
We used to have policeman, on point duty to keep traffic moving, especially on major hightways.
Now we have fender benders, along with tow trucks, tie up highway lanes for hours.
Get the policeman to clear them, keep traffic moving, or divert traffic at the previous off ramp, and then a twenty minute trip would take twenty minutes and not two hours.
Keeping the traffic moving would be a miracle to fight congestion as well as pollution. If I am on the road an hour and a half less think of all the pollution, gas, time that would save.
I think we need policemen to direct traffic and keep it moving, we need fewer obstructions to the traffic flow, we need traffic to move at the posted speed limit, not at 1 tenth of that.
We don’t need more highways we need for the ones we have to work.
Construction on highways ought to be done one lane at a time. For instance you repair the right lane this year the middle lane next year and the left lane the year following year.
As it happens now each night the accessible lane changes and drivers are slowed down and confused. Some times at certain points we have all three lanes closed at the same time with detours, a very disruptive mode of doing things.
WE don’t need more highways, we don’t need to pay more for them, we need them to work the way they were designed to work.
Observer