Re: City Traffic

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From: Chris Malcolm
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:49

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In article <930122.165530.6d7.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:

>Another factor is that people tend to ignore the time taken to find parking
>when they calculate their journey time by car.

A recent survey in Vienna reported that during the dayitme 1/3 of the
cars in the city centre were driving around looking for somewhere to
park.

If you stand in Princes Street, Edinburgh, on Saturday morning you
will observe a strange phenomenon: a woman will come out of a shop
laden with shopiing and stand on the kerb. Soon a car will draw up,
she gets in, and is driven away. A little more observation reveals
that outside any large shop there are lots of men driving their cars
round and round the block waiting for their wives to come out with the
shopping.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205

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Subject: Re: City Traffic
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Date: 22 Jan 93 18:49:22 GMT
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