tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141070.post8456820453083887808..comments2023-12-09T00:49:20.257-05:00Comments on WWVB : What Would Vannevar Blog?: Koch Bros (d/b/a Reason Foundation) Want Your Transit, TooVannevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513110035186346571noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141070.post-40265508177545091082014-01-08T07:59:52.498-05:002014-01-08T07:59:52.498-05:00One of the first things traffic engineers learn is...One of the first things traffic engineers learn is that if you build a highway and it doesn't fill up, you put the highway in the wrong place. A proper study would have looked at congestion as a homeostatic parameter, and compared transit use to economic activity or, as you suggest, trips by people. Reason does this all the time; they don't seem like liars in person, so it must be something in the culture that makes them miss basic concepts in the service of their mission.<br /><br />I don't like person-miles as a metric, either. Moving a hundred commuters 5 miles each is a much better thing than moving ten commuters 50 miles each. But I'm not in the mainstream on that.<br />Joenoreply@blogger.com