Transit
A late bus costs more than a slow one
Passengers plan around the worst trip they expect rather than the average one, so unreliability is paid for twice.
Transit
Metro, bus, tram and bike networks, judged on whether people actually use them.
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Night service is a maintenance window before it is a timetable
The hours a network does not run are decided by engineering access, staffing and depots rather than by whether anyone wants to…
Transit
Park and ride moves traffic to the edge and sometimes adds more
A car park at a station converts car trips into rail trips. It can also convert bus and bike trips into car trips.
Transit
Real-time information changes the wait more than the waiting time
Knowing when a service will arrive does not make it arrive sooner. It changes what the wait feels like and what the passenger does…
Transit
Ticket gates shape a station more than its platforms do
Fare control decides where crowds form, how many entrances a station can have and how quickly it empties in an emergency.
Transit
A transit map that needs explaining has already failed
Passengers use a network they can hold in their head. Legibility is a design property that can be built in or lost.
Transit
A depot decides where a bus route can go
Vehicles have to sleep somewhere, be cleaned somewhere and be repaired somewhere. Those sites quietly constrain the whole network.
Transit
Shared scooters solve the last mile and park on the footway
Dockless vehicles fill a genuine gap in urban networks. The gap they create is on the pavement they are left on.
Transit
A ferry is transit only where the water is the shortest line
Boats move few people slowly and can still be the right answer when a bridge would cost more than a city can raise.