DDOT / SMART look to streamline fare aystem

**professorscott** · August-28-18, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk

[[unlike these correpondents, we are driven by data and not anecdotes)

Sounds like one of those anecdotal posts you were reffering to earlier, Scott.

Touche.

I haven't studied parking lot behavior, but I've been around enough parking lots over time to form a reasonable hypothesis, which is that nearly everybody tries to find the closest possible spot to their entry point to a building in such a situation, and that a good many people are willing to do a bit of extra driving for the purpose. If you want to see this in action, given the time of year, watch the students driving around the parking lot of your local college or university in the first couple weeks of classes.

If somebody wants to do a study, I'll be happy to assist :0

**Honky Tonk** · August-28-18, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by professorscott

Touche.

I haven't studied parking lot behavior, but I've been around enough parking lots over time to form a reasonable hypothesis, which is that nearly everybody tries to find the closest possible spot to their entry point to a building in such a situation, and that a good many people are willing to do a bit of extra driving for the purpose. If you want to see this in action, given the time of year, watch the students driving around the parking lot of your local college or university in the first couple weeks of classes.

If somebody wants to do a study, I'll be happy to assist :0

I think I'll pass on hanging around parking lots and counting cruisers. I've seen all that before and you're right, of course. I wanted to make my point about observations. Good luck with the grandiose scheme of mass transit. I think it's being approached all wrong and is unsustainable.