¿CÓMO MEJORAR EL TRÁFICO EN LOS ANGELES?

El cortometraje Network_LA tránsito es una respuesta de diseño conceptual del estudio Gensler de Los Angeles a una invitación abierta por Sci-Arc, The Architect’s Newspaper, y LA Metro preguntando cómo la ciudad de Los Angeles puede hacer cambiar a las personas, para que cambien sus vehículos por el transporte público.

NETWORK_LA transit from tam thien tran on Vimeo.

Increasing the movement of people, not cars, should be the goal of any public transit initiative. For this ambitious project, we propose an integrated set of ideas based on user needs and aimed at adapting the current system and improving its performance at the various scales. The belief is that a more responsive system and an improved user experience ultimately leads to the means to meet Los Angeles’ transit challenge.

This design proposal is based on four ideas: 

1. Increase vehicle choices  in the LA Metro system to include alternative modes of transportation, which provide various scales of public transport efficiency. 
2. Increase flexibility of public transport by keeping existing transit stops but liberating the routes that connect them so that it may respond more immediately to user demand.  Also provide it an efficiency advantage with dedicated lanes and pull-in stops to allow for bypassing, as well strategically located underpasses. 
3. Leverage existing data to increase flexibility and optimize choices by overlapping the location of all ground transport, stops and users through GPS to coordinate their relative positions, needs and capacity in real time.  To complete this triangulation, a GPS enabled app - tripFinder – automatically scans the network to sort and provide the user with the optimum trip itinerary while also optimizing the current status of the public transit fleet. 
4. Expand the network and fill in the transport voids by granting access to this real time information through the selling of licenses to more and other alternative ground transport entities. This business could also be a potential profit center for LA Metro.