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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: City Traffic
- Message-ID: <30682@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:49:22 GMT
- References: <935820125829@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> <21132@acorn.co.uk> <930122.165530.6d7.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <930122.165530.6d7.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
-
- >Another factor is that people tend to ignore the time taken to find parking
- >when they calculate their journey time by car.
-
- A recent survey in Vienna reported that during the dayitme 1/3 of the
- cars in the city centre were driving around looking for somewhere to
- park.
-
- If you stand in Princes Street, Edinburgh, on Saturday morning you
- will observe a strange phenomenon: a woman will come out of a shop
- laden with shopiing and stand on the kerb. Soon a car will draw up,
- she gets in, and is driven away. A little more observation reveals
- that outside any large shop there are lots of men driving their cars
- round and round the block waiting for their wives to come out with the
- shopping.
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- Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh +44 (0)31 650 3085
- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
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