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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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While I like this chart, it's useless without the tradeoff. It also needs to map speed to time spent. What is being given up for improved efficiency? The inflection point is how you move people from point A to point B.
The biggie is urban planning to ensure that people don't need to travel huge distances on a routine basis. That means that people give up very little.