<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks for the link! Interesting stuff,<br><br>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:<br><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/412632/first-rule-of-ant-traffic-no-overtaking/">http://www.technologyreview.com/view/412632/first-rule-of-ant-traffic-no-overtaking/</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>-Katie</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Grace Gellerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggellerman@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">ggellerman@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>TL;DR : not unlike the work that we do in developing software.</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-a-standstill-why-tfl-stopped-people-walking-up-the-escalators" rel="noreferrer" style="display:inline!important" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-a-standstill-why-tfl-stopped-people-walking-up-the-escalators</a><br></div></div></div>
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