Creative thinking – challenge #1
Edward de Bono, renowned expert on creative thinking, poses a problem to which he would like you to find a creative solution. Be sure to check out Doctor de Bono’s solution and more questions at www.thinkoutsidethebox.se
Four steps:
1. Tax usage of vehicles in congested zones by automatic tolls. Larger vehicles have higher taxes. Increase taxes on vehicle sales and resales, vehicle registration, and fuel.
2. Redirect funds to a state of the art public transport system (Beijing has done this, Bangkok has not).
3. Create specific lanes for buses only.
4. Ensure public transport costs are affordable to all sectors of society via State subsidies and discounts to students, pensioners, children, etc.
make all roads like a conveyor belt. everyones cars just get strapped in or held down with chains or something like the semis that move cars use.. lol and the belt just moves at a respectable speed that will shorten trip distances and save gas and depending on where you live, you can have solar powered belts. so u can save energy and gas.
What you need at intersections is subterranean, or sky walk ways at intersections for the pedestrians. The for the automobile traffic, you need to build an elevated road surface that bridges over the intersection. That way, neither direction of traffic has to stop, thus improving traffic efficiency.
To make this cheaper, you just need to employ similar building technology as used in multi-storey car parks, as it’s a similar principle of structural mechanics.
Educate employers and allow work force to work from home.
Promote local hot-desks to be available to employees so that they don’t have to travel to work every day.
@elcorona870722,
That’s sort of impossible. The bikes could be used for intra-city travel, but automobiles would still be needed for travel to cities.
when all the bankok ppl are sleeping, change all their car doors to small triangles so its hard for them to get in.
A system in which you rent vehicles, and pay a small price for your journey. This exists only in cities, and is comparable to the trolley system in supermarkets. You can leave the cart in any of the designated spots (hooked up to electric chargers) and take a different one for the return journey.
i have one: WE CAN USE BYCICLES and reduce the distance into the cities, make better places
the solution to traffic congestion is public transportation. a bus moves 50 people more efficiently then 50 cars.
maybe we should just reduce population
That would just shift all the traffic down into the tunnel. I suggest we should use flyovers in conjunction with tunnels and roads. That would significantly reduce traffic and congestion.
the thought police took it down
i like this.
we can plant forests and grass on top so we can have our nature back :’(
tunnels for cars everywhere so you drive underground and get out at set points close to your area,(properly ventilated of course)and the cars could run on special tram lines that transfer power to the cars via a solar panel or wind generator above the tunnel,this would free up road space for more wind generators.;)
the city could start lowering prices everywhere, cutting back business competition, thus cutting back individual working hours, thus having less traffic on the road. when u are starting to choke mother earth to death, u have to look at the root cause for all the hustle bustle: money. if everybody had to spend less…theyd also be driving less. there just wouldnt be an incentive. no one gets kicked to the curb, its a collective decision to just cut back in general. thus reducing traffic!
ENCOURAGE PUBLIC TRANSPORT
ELIMINATE BUSES AND OTHER LARGE PERSONALY USED VEHICLES THAT BLOCK TRAFFIC-RE-INTRODUCE RUNNING BOARDS ON CARS THE MANUFACTURING COST WOULD BE SOMEWHAT CONSIDERABLY LOWER THAN CREATING A WORLD OF FLYING CARS(not intended to offend).MORE ROUNDABOUTS?HAVING DIFFERENT OPENIG AND CLOSING TIMES FOR BUISNESSES TO BREAK UP “RUSH HOURS”.
As the vehicle rises, it turns to the right. As it descends, it turns to the left. Avoidance between rising and falling arcs is rather simple phase relation, with automated information exchange implementing it. Propulsion itself is implemented by MEMs based themo-electric rocket arrays, air working fluid energized by electricity produced by Air Independent fuel cells – recharged while on the ground from solar panels, or by power beamed to the aircraft in flight.
Flying vehicles – in 3 dimensions – the congestion goes away. Vertical only motion for the first 300 m – then move northward at increasing speed from 0 to 300 kph from 300 m to 600 m.. then change direction from 0 degrees to 360 degrees over the next 360 m. This flight pattern will allow movement from any point to any other point without crossing or collision by following a programed altitude pattern – all vehicles moving in the same direction at the same speed – with simple tol protocols
very good point
One thing that I was thinking of as a solution, is to have screens, above you, facing the floor, so that if you look up, instead of seeing “the ceiling”, you’d see a perfect, 3D image of the sky.
this way, every level would “look like” the ground level of a normal city, with a sky high above it, instead of a low ceiling.
If this is done effectively enough, people wouldn’t notice the difference much.
And as for the the real sun… perhaps it’s part of the price of modernity?
but no sunlight
genocide
I’d say limit the child birth rate to 1 kid per person, in example, 2 parents could only have 2 kids. If they had any more, they were taxed all to hell. This would also help solve the over-population problem, as some families would only have one. If the two parents split, they could decide who’s kid the one kid would count for in court.
bicycles for all!!!
Blow it all up