Short · Transport
Can small cars in a tunnel move as many people as buses?
Capacity is vehicles per hour times riders. Short car gaps can add up, but station loading bays become the bottleneck.
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Transcript
Small cars in a tunnel can move as many people as a busy bus line. Capacity is vehicles per hour times people in each. A bus carries about sixty, so one every two minutes moves eighteen hundred an hour. A car carries three or four, but send one every few seconds, and it adds up fast. Now shrink the gap. Steady spacing and plenty of loading bays keep the tunnel from ever waiting. In Las Vegas, the Boring Company says its Loop has carried over forty-five hundred people an hour. Follow to see how the world works.