stoytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•2 months agoHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?arrow-up198arrow-down18message-square90file-text
arrow-up190arrow-down1message-squareHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?stoytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•2 months agomessage-square90file-text
I mean in those areas where it just identical houses along a road in huge blocks. How would you realisyicly solve it?
minus-squareZachariah2•2 months agolinkfedilinkCould just have a human driver. I think the impromptu routing would be the thing that works best for suburbs.
minus-squareLanternEverywhere1•2 months agolinkfedilink3 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_28English1•2 months agolinkfedilinkYou 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-squareUranium30061•2 months agolinkfedilinkdo 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