Jevons Paradox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

TLDR= Adding highways as Tech 'solutions' only for them to fill up...

Answer= Focus on actions - not on measurements...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Keywords:
#Tech #congestion
#urbanplanning #traffic #cities
#JevonsParadox #transportation
computers like #cars

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https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/109385967288757785
Nov 22, 2022

Brent Toderian @BrentToderian

"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.

We’ve known this for a long time, but we’ve put a massive amount of money, space, time & energy into pretending we don’t know it.
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion #traffic #congestion #cities #JevonsParadox #transportation #mobility #urbanism #urbanplanning #cars

2. " Focus on actions - not on measurements... "

A Plea for Climate Justice - Report from the IAB Workshop on e-Impact
Vesna Manojlovic — 19 Dec 2022

https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/a-plea-for-climate-justice-report-from-the-iab-workshop-on-e-impact/

This resulted in suggestions that were well received by workshop chairs and quoted in the follow-up sessions:

10% yearly decrease of energy & materials consumption for ICT;
Focus on actions - not on measurements;
Support for adding "Sustainability Considerations" section to each RFC!

what should be considered "the Internet": core? edge? whole ICT?

I also disagree with a focus of this paper* on "increasing energy efficiency" , because I believe that the focus should be on decreasing the consumption.

* https://github.com/intarchboard/e-impact-workshop-public/blob/main/papers/Greening-of-Streaming_Tune-In-Turn-On-Cut-Back.pdf

While I do find encouraging the existence of a group of technology vendors, service and content providers would be interested in "Greening of Streaming", I find their focus on increasing energy efficiency is misguided, because of "efficacy myth"♢ and Jevons paradox☆.

♢ https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/papers/limits22-final-Makonin.pdf

☆ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Shoutout to the SE Freeway/Car Sewer.

RT @BrentToderian@twitter.com

"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.

We’ve known this for a long time, but we’ve put massive money, space, time & energy into pretending we don’t know it.
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1582599669754265601

“We found that there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10%, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10%.” One of the earliest, and still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads just leads to more driving. Call it #InducedDemand, or #JevonsParadox, or the #LawOfCongestion. Via WIRED, it’s worth a read and share.
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
#cities #transportation #urbanism #city #cars

"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.

We’ve known this for a long time, but we’ve put a massive amount of money, space, time & energy into pretending we don’t know it.
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion #traffic #congestion #cities #JevonsParadox #transportation #mobility #urbanism #urbanplanning #cars