Honolulu, ©Jarrett Scott Gladstone, 2019
Thank you for visiting my Traffic Lab pages. Here you will find my musings about transit and other ways to get around.
I have visited every state in the Union, and during my time on the East Coast I’m enjoying the experience of riding the Metro-North Rail Road and New York Subway system. Well, I suspect that some of you question my sanity when I say “enjoying”, but I like trains and public transit. I really cannot explain why. My joy is tacit.
In addition to transit, I find transportion systems interesting. Freeways, highways, bridges, ships, rail, and air. I admit that I didn’t mention cars. Despite the many miles I have behind the wheel, you’d think I would be a gearhead. For me cars are machines to get me from point A to point B – on demand. Sure, I have my luxury dream car, but as I get older, that dream car is evolving into something smaller and easier to park, and with a dim red dashboard for night driving. My ultimate dream car is one that drives itself across country. Days on the highway can be long, and I much want to look out the side windows to see the country passing by rather than spending most of my time watching asphalt ahead.
These pages share my interest in moving me, people, and stuff across town, across country, and across the globe. I don't have too much interest in inter-celestial travel (to the moon and back), because while it involves cool tech, the moon is just a big, cold, dry airless empty rock. While it would be neat to visit, my desire lies mostly in the opportunity to look back at the earth. I’m curious about how much of the lunar sky it fills.
These pages are mostly public musings. For my business students, I hope it gives you ideas about business logistics. The stuff you acquire to make the stuff you sell needs somehow somehow to get to you and your customers, and depending on your business size, your employees need to be able to get to the shop or office.
