Mobility efficiency

Excerpts from Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space by Richard Layman

Optimal
Definition: Best, by whatever criterion decisions are being made; thus yielding the highest level of utility, profit, economic welfare, or whatever objective is being pursued.
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Mobility efficiency of various modes, one hour's travel. (From the 1977 study, Central Washington Transportation and Civic Design Study.)


Any basic analysis of mobility can't help but come to the conclusion that automobiles aren't very efficient collectively in terms of moving large numbers of people, especially during short periods of time such as during rush periods.
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Sprawl promoting economists choose to ignore key economic principles when it suits them