@[email protected] to Ask Lemmy • 8 months agoHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?message-square90fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up189arrow-down1message-squareHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?@[email protected] to Ask Lemmy • 8 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-square@Zachariahlink2•8 months agoCould just have a human driver. I think the impromptu routing would be the thing that works best for suburbs.
minus-squareLanternEverywherelinkfedilink1•8 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•8 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-squareUranium3006linkfedilink1•8 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