- Late/early merging and the mental processes involved
- Individual variations in and conflicts between mental models (these remind me of Minsky's frames)
- Love the reference to Maister's queuing theory http://tinyurl.com/co555p
- Traffic as rice through a funnel
- Great chapter on more roads leading to more traffic: "It'll be all right by Friday." Latent/induced travel demand and disappearing traffic. Game theory and non-optimal Nash equilibrium. Uninternalized externalities and, of course, the tragedy of the commons.
- INRIX real-time traffic data
- Self-destroying prognoses (the perfect counterpoint to self-fulfilling prophecies)
- Highways as the forgiving road, the self-explaining road, and Green Book design speeds.
- Monderman's psychological traffic calming using the context of the village (I see great similarities with Gibson's affordances.)
- Theory of people seeking risk homeostasis. However, we have poor ability to assess risk.
All in all, I have trouble waiting for the next interesting nugget, but this book satisfies my craving for multiple perspectives: traffic engineering, sociology, psychology, international.
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