Tagged “transport”

equal parts fascinating and terrifying. Containing oil spills, recovering cargo, cutting the ship into pieces.

City layouts that cause cars to be favoured over alternative transportation

Subjective well-being improves with car shedding, if it's not done for financial reasons.

please fewer underground car tubes

donoteat01's hyperloop take still has me very skeptical on tunnels as a viable transport alternative.

Covers a lot! Approximate cost breakdowns, on people's desire for customisation, on transport costs of materials (you can't ship prefab concrete slabs across the country).

Includes a handy one-liner on why things aren't improving:

The combination of consumer tastes, low dollar value per volume building components, and the complexity of buildings inhibit efforts to scale.

A walk through how fast different types of train can go, and why. Great balance of history and physics, detailed but without too much assumed knowledge.