There are a few examples of rail projects that fail in a way that poisons the entire idea among decisionmakers. The failures can be total, to the point that the project isn’t built and nobody tries it again. Or the outcome can be a mixed blessing: an open project with some ridership, but not enough […]| Pedestrian Observations
Dutch high-speed rail is the original case of premature commitment and lock-in. A decision was made in 1991 that the Netherlands needed 300 km/h high-speed rail, imitating the TGV, which at that po…| Pedestrian Observations
A new high-speed line (NBS) between Hamburg and Hanover has received the approval of the government, and will go up for a Bundestag vote shortly. The line has been proposed and planned in various f…| Pedestrian Observations
I’m sitting on a EuroCity train from Copenhagen back to Germany. It’s timetabled to take 4:45 to do 520 km, an average speed of 110 km/h, and the train departed 25 minutes late because …| Pedestrian Observations
The Regional Plan Association ran an event 2.5 days ago about New York commuter rail improvements and Penn Station, defending the $16.7 billion Penn Station Expansion proposal as necessary for capa…| Pedestrian Observations
Overestimation happens constantly and oftentimes we are unaware of this bias. Luckily for us and everyone around us, it is possible to overcome this phenomenon called the Dunning-Kruger effect. We humans often think we behave in a most rational and logical way. When presented with a particularly hard question we could even come up with […] This post What is the Dunning-Kruger effect, and how to overcome it? is published on Neurofied.| Neurofied
