The thing that always strikes me in old movies like this is the number of pedestrians taking their time walking across the street. Like they own the place. Maybe that would be a good thing to aim for when designing cities: to make pedestrians feel that confident.https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1274105558992289794 …
Do you mean that their modeling was bad or that the problem is intractable?
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The modeling was simplistic based on “service levels” and has not been updated in decades. This problem is solved millions of times ever second by the likes of Deliveroo and Uber. It has not found its way into the hand of AASHTO, yet.
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There were too many variables in a grid based street layout for the tools they had at the time. They couldn’t model traffic flows back then. It’s akin to if scientists denied bees could fly because they couldn’t prove it. Yet grid based layouts the world over prove otherwise.
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