{"id":785,"date":"2016-04-09T12:38:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neovita.com\/thoughts\/?p=785"},"modified":"2016-04-09T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T12:38:21","slug":"how-long-will-it-take-how-do-i-save-a-bit-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/how-long-will-it-take-how-do-i-save-a-bit-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How long will it take? How do I save a bit of time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I like being efficient and effective. So I have optimized where I wait in some of the stations of the Stockholm subway. I&#8217;m an optimization freak. :)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, if I want to go from downtown to KTH, I should enter the train in the front. When I exit the train, I will then be next to the escalators to KTH. But with the train line making a wide u-turn from downtown to KTH, it took me a long time to understand the relationship between the train cars and the exits.<\/p>\n<p>Even more important then my little optimization schemes is the value that comes from travellers leaving the station efficiently \u2013 fewer persons walking around on the platforms is better.<\/p>\n<p>I am of course not the first person to think about this. Tokyo is one city that helps its travellers find their optimal subway train car.<\/p>\n<p>On the poster from a Yamanote line platform we can see, among other info:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The train is travelling to the right and consists of 11 cars<\/li>\n<li>We are at Yoyogi station, next is Yamamoto to which the train ride is 2 minutes long (there after Shibuya after a total of 5 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>We are positioned where the 5th car will stop<\/li>\n<li>At Shibuya there is an elevator where car 3 stops (blue background) and escalators where car 5 stops (pink background)<\/li>\n<li>The Yamanote line has green as its accent colour ;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Accessibility is of big importance in Tokyo and these posters may have been conceived to help persons who need escalators\/elevators. But they also help us optimization freaks :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like being efficient and effective. So I have optimized where I wait in some of the stations of the Stockholm subway. I&#8217;m an optimization freak. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,30],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication","category-inclusion","category-information-design"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tokyo-subway-exit-info.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}