{"id":5765,"date":"2013-05-16T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:21:34","slug":"traffic-expressed-in-time-to-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/traffic-expressed-in-time-to-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic expressed in time to travel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Traffic expressed in time to travel from point A to point B is convex to the number of cars. If you raise the number of cars by 1% you increase travel time by a lot more than 1%. Obviously, the solution is to spread traffic and avoid concentration. 2-3% fewer cars in one area can mean a lot. Google map is doing just that. It allows the collective of citizens to divert traffic and that small number makes a huge difference. This beats the planners\/bureaucrats who have at least in NYC proven that cannot possibly comprehend nonlinear responses.It is the same problem of nonlinear harm in nature. Consuming just a little less of some items, and switching to other food groups, or constantly changing pollutants just as changing routes thanks to Google maps can bring back stability to the system.<br \/>NOTE 1: Optimally it would make people switch AWAY from cars.<br \/>NOTE 2: travel time is a negative; it is convex so we are concave to it =&gt; FRAGILITY.<br \/>NOTE 3: This is the same general idea of distribution of stressors\/avoidance of concentration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10151486520148375&amp;set=a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374&amp;type=1\">Timeline Photos | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic expressed in time to travel from point A to point B is convex to the number of cars. If you raise the number of cars by 1% you increase travel time by a lot more than 1%. Obviously, the solution is to spread traffic and avoid concentration. 2-3% fewer cars in one area can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[717],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5766,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}