[teampractices] Interesting logistical experiment in London Underground

[Katie Horn]

Thanks for the link! Interesting stuff,

Aside from being another example of counterintuitive realities about
bottlenecks in complicated systems, I don't really know how this helps or
adds to the conversation other than being pretty neat, but I recently heard
this was also a thing:
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/412632/first-rule-of-ant-traffic-no-overtaking/

-Katie

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Grace Gellerman <ggellerman at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> An experiment in the London Underground yielded a similarly
> counterintuitive result to the Kanban tenet that we finish more by working
> on less at any given time.
>
> The Transport for London was able to substantially increase throughput of
> passengers exiting the subway by converting the walking lane on the left of
> the escalators to an additional standing lane like the traditional one on
> the right.
>
> The experiment sought to change entrenched behavior as it tried to tackle
> bottlenecks.  Given that the capacity of these subway stations will be
> challenged to process larger populations as technology improves (more
> frequent trains, larger doors), finding a solution in behavior could be
> more attractive than addressing one through infrastructure.
>
> TL;DR : not unlike the work that we do in developing software.
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-a-standstill-why-tfl-stopped-people-walking-up-the-escalators
>
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