{"id":205225183,"date":"2011-07-04T06:59:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T06:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=205225183"},"modified":"2011-07-04T06:59:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T06:59:43","slug":"mobility-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=205225183","title":{"rendered":"Mobility efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space by Richard Layman<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Optimal<\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economics-dictionary.com\/definition\/optimal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Definition<\/a>:  Best, by whatever criterion decisions are being made; thus yielding the highest level of utility, profit, economic welfare, or whatever objective is being pursued.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>\nMobility efficiency of various modes, one hour&#8217;s travel.  (From the 1977 study, Central Washington Transportation and Civic Design Study.)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rllayman\/489961132\/\" title=\"Mobility efficiency -- Passonneau by rllayman, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/489961132_51a5ebe0fc.jpg\" alt=\"Mobility efficiency -- Passonneau\" height=\"290\" width=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any basic analysis of  mobility can&#8217;t help but come to the conclusion that automobiles aren&#8217;t  very efficient collectively in terms of moving large numbers of people,  especially during short periods of time such as during rush periods.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/sprawl-promoting-economists-choose-to.html\">Sprawl promoting economists choose to ignore key economic principles when it suits them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space by Richard Layman OptimalDefinition: Best, by whatever criterion decisions are being made; thus yielding the highest level of utility, profit, economic welfare, or whatever objective is being pursued. &#8230; Mobility efficiency of various modes, one hour&#8217;s travel. (From the 1977 study, Central Washington Transportation and Civic Design &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=205225183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mobility efficiency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205225183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205225183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205225183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205225183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205225183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205225183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205225183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}