Team 6: Week 12 Report
Each week I search the internet in the pursuit of ariticles on non-automobile traffic. Looking high and low for information that could be informative as well as entertaining and interesting for everyone. Sadly enough I have not found topics that grab my
attention or call to me. That was until I did an excite search on non-automobile traffic. It was great! I found an article that was different and fun and off the wall, yet dealing with traffic. To start off I did the usual non-automobile traffic search
in excite.
Many of the links were already highlighted since I had looked at them before, then there were also the links to my own traffic psychology papers, and those to my classmates. Naturally I thought I wouldn't find anything, but it was worth a try. Then, I s
aw it...there it was...a link to (some guy's page). In the summary one of the topics was none other than bathroom traffic. Cool huh? One should really check it out. Anyway it was great...very humerous. I'm not really sure how legitimate it is as a study,
but they do have a pretty authoritative looking page. The study is being conducted by Vanderbilt University, project name R.U.M.P. (Restroom utilization Measurement Project) The belief behind this project is that the need to excrete bodily waste is a na
tural function that everyone is an active participant in. Their goal is to "apply current engineering techniques in novel ways to improve the quality of human waste management in the face of increasing quantity.
As you look through their plan you can really see that it is well thought out. Strange yes, but no more strange than people's first reactions to traffic psychology. People laugh at the things we study, but they all have an effect on our lives. Just as
car automobile traffic is an attempt to improve the drving of others this waste management project will identify ways facilities could be partitioned for greater gender equity.
Looking at different means of traffic is important to traffic psychology because ultimately the road ways are not the only havens for traffic. Schools, shopping centers, even bathrooms deal with the issue of traffic...pedestrian traffic. Imagine if we l
ived in a world free of automobiles, we'd still have traffic, bicycle traffic, roller blade traffic, pedestrian traffic. Traffic will not disappear, so knowing how to behave more positively in traffic is the only way we have to survive.
Be safe and smile...we need to take care of our world, together.