Not really, night shifts are like 8 PM to 4 AM. I’m talking about a shifted schedule where people leave just 1 hour earlier to avoid the worst of traffic, and thus efficiency improves considerably. Most jobs could be worked from 6 AM to 2 PM instead of 9 AM to 5 PM.
Wouldn’t work. We’re familiar with the idea of induced demand spatially, as in building more lanes generates worse traffic congestion, but it would work temporally, too. Make more road capacity available by using the lanes we have at different times, and they’d just generate traffic congestion at different times.
By the way, I read recently that Houston no longer has a rush hour. It’s just congested through the whole day, now.
Not really, night shifts are like 8 PM to 4 AM. I’m talking about a shifted schedule where people leave just 1 hour earlier to avoid the worst of traffic, and thus efficiency improves considerably. Most jobs could be worked from 6 AM to 2 PM instead of 9 AM to 5 PM.
Wouldn’t work. We’re familiar with the idea of induced demand spatially, as in building more lanes generates worse traffic congestion, but it would work temporally, too. Make more road capacity available by using the lanes we have at different times, and they’d just generate traffic congestion at different times.
By the way, I read recently that Houston no longer has a rush hour. It’s just congested through the whole day, now.