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ITS Green and smart
Facts, evidence, logic • What sort of matter is transport • What sorts of knowledge is involved • Where is the punktum • Who is the agent • But is it art? • What is to be done?
Dead stop
Blind rise
Table
Four Black
Green man, red man, time, stop, go
This is rather nice, I wonder where it came from?
Passenger information
Scamper, undignified
Bouncy bus
Never again and nowhere else
Passenger information
There is a railway station here
One parking space
Who, whom?
Stop, place, distance
Time, interchange, informate
White bus
Stop, place, interchange
Red bus
Stop, place, frequency,
Real time information
Count down
Where, place
Informate, interchange
Daily occurance
And on the bus
Interchange
Rail, bus, county, country
Automatic door
Families, happy, MP.
One hundred million
for the barrier gates, pounds that is
What is the point
of attack and blame
Yellow stripe
Barbican
Knowing
Doing
ITS • Technology • Keynote • iPhoto • Concepts
• Sequence • Order • Argument • Logic
• Words
• Visualisation
• Names
• Agency
Storyboard • Presentation
• Picture
• Poster
• Block of text
• Lecture
• Knowledge
• Seminar
• Information
• Video, book
• Document
• Social networking
• Method
Stop not • This was a stop, a useful one, opposite the entrance to the V&A. What it needed was a safe crossing. • Now it is a stop no more, but a place where buses park, and the stop is a long way back or forwards. • There have been many changes to stop locations, all to the worse. Who, whom?
Who, whom? • Where is Kensal Rise? • Where is this bus actually going? • There used to be a stream of places, perhaps six or eight? • Clearly there could be too many so that it would be unreadable, but one? And obscure? • Regular and frequent journey
Buses, stops, routes, interchanges, frequency, design
Beck on • Variety of the 1931 design but this shows a colour code of who owns the contract. • It also shows the capitalist centrality of historic London. • Polycentric or network concepts missing completely. • But this is showing geography of a different scale, one hundred miles, one hour.
Beck again • The original notation now extended to show the lines running which are not part of the organisation for which the original was designed. • There is an added concept, thick dark line means four an hour, thin grey, fewer. • Then a line changes contract and it becomes orange later. • But the interchanges?
Stations, interchanges, routes, frequency places,
Simple • It can be done. • This makes a difference. • It reduces congestion. • Beyond it the ticket machines and the indicator boards are badly placed so that congestion returns, but it shows that someone was thinking and did something simple.
Scamper • This could be Waterloo East for Charing Cross, but just to show it is more general, this is waiting for the Victoria train at Clapham Junction, 12, or 14. • There are new real time indicator boards which do make a difference, but it is still a matter of 12 or 14. • But this does raise the issues of granularity, scalabity, as well as 150 years of design.
What can be done • This is what on bus real indication should be like. • It shows origin and destination, the sequence of stops, and the interchange informating for the next stop. • But of course, it stopped running soon after introduction and hasn’t been extended or replicated or replaced. • While the monitors exist still.
Back to reality • Elephant and Castle, major interchange, huge development. • Up these steps, or down them, in the far distance, is the railway station, at the other end, the bus stops, elsewhere, the underground stations, and there is nothing to tell you anything about any of this. • One of the first green and smart
Stations, interchanges, routes, frequency places,
Back home • This was a gate with steps which saved one hundred yards of walking. • It was sacrificed to make one parking space.
One stop • There is a lot to explain in a text box about two bus services, then another two bus services, then another two bus services, then another one. • KU • 514/5 • 406/418 • 465
White bus • This is a KU bus, on contract among sites, which does not stop at several stops, and passes, almost empty. • It is a substantial investment by KU in making transport available, for parking is a great matter in the area, as is housing, and wages. • The stories of where it stops are many and varied.
Red bus • This particular bus tried to zoom past outside the stop, and had I not shoved myself in front of it, it would not have stopped. But that is the detail of any one particular journey. • The more substantial matter is its stops, and its fulness, it frequency, its destination.
Stops, interchanges, routes, frequency places,
Real time • This must be the single most significant improvement in public transport since Beck? • There are matters of competition and monopoly, of the sources of the data, of networking and connectivity of design and clutter. • When they don’t work, human agency has to take over, which is another matter. • Intermediate stations?
Real time • The bus experience has been a different matter entirely. • This has been almost total failure. • What is called real time is most frequently simply display of timetable data.
Stops, interchanges, routes, frequency places, informate
You are not told what to do, and on the bus, never informed that there is a change in route pattern.
Much more • This is a much more complicated matter, a major interchange of bus and rail. • What stops where, what goes where? • Buses are being parked for rest periods. • Terminus.
Now for • something completely different. • This is the automatic gate, except it isn’t. • It is driven by the person responsible for despatching trains on the platforms, who have other things to be doing. • There are buttons. • Revenue protection
Another one • These gates once provided access to the lines lower. • We thought we had won this. • Then, after one hundred million was spent on some other gates, we now have to walk the long way round, with everyone else, through the main shopping mall.
Stops, interchanges, routes, frequency places, informate, infuriate
Who is responsible?
It is • possible to do something. • This was the first time I saw this real place indicator which gets you to the Barbican Centre from the entrances to the estate. • The difference is the other direction, trying to find a particular bus stop, for example, the 4 for Waterloo. • Then it all runs out.
Something can be done.
Who, whom? • Short hand expression for listing the agents taking decisions and acting upon them, and who is impacted, positively or negatively. • Part of the problem is identifying roles and disambiguating responsibilities. • Workers • Managers • Academics
• Owners • Politicians, councillors • Officials • Activists • Professionals • For any one of us may be several of these at the same time. Who knows. Or, what ever.
What is to be done? • This is a short-hand expression for listing the actions which might be taken and the agents who could be responsible.
• The last large attempt was following the white paper on Integrated Transport in 1997. That resulted in the Creating Sparks Festival.
• From this will be worked out an action plan.
• This will result in the Festival of Place at the 2009
• This time round follows the Future of Transport study with the European Commission and a series of meetings reporting on the work.
• Then the London Biennale, 2010. •
Just get over it • Or what over • Who gives
• But my high risk strategy is to continue to exert energy on the concepts informate, interchange, integrate, which is a matter of information systems design.
• Just do it • These are expressions I encounter on the approach to these matters which seem to show a post modernist carelessness to the whole matter?
• For myself, I continue to make little knowbots which help me to do things which should be pleasurable and cost almost nothing. • By making these available, if anyone is interested, there they are.
Structure • History
• Information management
• Theory
• Politics
• Education
• Economics
• Practical design
• Business
• Social activism
• Management
• Knowledge sharing
• Technology
Organisation • Kingston University, etc
• UITP
• RBKT, SCC, etc
• European Commission
• SWT, Arrriva, etc
• RSA, etc
• TfL
• National Trust
• DfT
• Ramblers’ Association
• MPs, Select committees
• Living Streets
Data • Place
• Price
• Stop
• Distance
• Time
• Speed
• Journey
• Informate
• Route
• Interchange
• Frequency
• Integrate
- all - design • Landscape Gallery
• Slow motion
• Green and Smart
• STEPS
• Infosys
• Antequeerians
• Infopolecon
• #twalk
• Future transport 2050
• Festival of Place
• Blearning
• Andoids
National Trust
Place, time, frequency, journey
Green and smart, 2009. Information, systems and social change v
Facts, evidence, logic • What sort of matter is transport • What sorts of knowledge is involved • Where is the punktum • Who is the agent • But is it art? • What is to be done?
Dead stop
Blind rise
Table
Four Black
Green man, red man, time, stop, go
This is rather nice, I wonder where it came from?
Passenger information
Scamper, undignified
Bouncy bus
Never again and nowhere else
Passenger information
There is a railway station here
One parking space
Who, whom?
Stop, place, distance
Time, interchange, informate
White bus
Stop, place, interchange
Red bus
Stop, place, frequency,
Real time information
Count down
Where, place
Informate, interchange
Daily occurance
And on the bus
Interchange
Rail, bus, county, country
Automatic door
Families, happy, MP.
One hundred million
for the barrier gates, pounds that is
What is the point
of attack and blame
Yellow stripe
Barbican
Knowing
Doing
ITS • Technology • Keynote • iPhoto • Concepts
• Sequence • Order • Argument • Logic
• Words
• Visualisation
• Names
• Agency
Storyboard • Presentation
• Picture
• Poster
• Block of text
• Lecture
• Knowledge
• Seminar
• Information
• Video, book
• Document
• Social networking
• Method
Stop not • This was a stop, a useful one, opposite the entrance to the V&A. What it needed was a safe crossing. • Now it is a stop no more, but a place where buses park, and the stop is a long way back or forwards. • There have been many changes to stop locations, all to the worse. Who, whom?
Who, whom? • Where is Kensal Rise? • Where is this bus actually going? • There used to be a stream of places, perhaps six or eight? • Clearly there could be too many so that it would be unreadable, but one? And obscure? • Regular and frequent journey
Buses, stops, routes, interchanges, frequency, design
Beck on • Variety of the 1931 design but this shows a colour code of who owns the contract. • It also shows the capitalist centrality of historic London. • Polycentric or network concepts missing completely. • But this is showing geography of a different scale, one hundred miles, one hour.
Beck again • The original notation now extended to show the lines running which are not part of the organisation for which the original was designed. • There is an added concept, thick dark line means four an hour, thin grey, fewer. • Then a line changes contract and it becomes orange later. • But the interchanges?
Stations, interchanges, routes, frequency places,
Simple • It can be done. • This makes a difference. • It reduces congestion. • Beyond it the ticket machines and the indicator boards are badly placed so that congestion returns, but it shows that someone was thinking and did something simple.
Scamper • This could be Waterloo East for Charing Cross, but just to show it is more general, this is waiting for the Victoria train at Clapham Junction, 12, or 14. • There are new real time indicator boards which do make a difference, but it is still a matter of 12 or 14. • But this does raise the issues of granularity, scalabity, as well as 150 years of design.
What can be done • This is what on bus real indication should be like. • It shows origin and destination, the sequence of stops, and the interchange informating for the next stop. • But of course, it stopped running soon after introduction and hasn’t been extended or replicated or replaced. • While the monitors exist still.
Back to reality • Elephant and Castle, major interchange, huge development. • Up these steps, or down them, in the far distance, is the railway station, at the other end, the bus stops, elsewhere, the underground stations, and there is nothing to tell you anything about any of this. • One of the first green and smart
Stations, interchanges, routes, frequency places,
Back home • This was a gate with steps which saved one hundred yards of walking. • It was sacrificed to make one parking space.
One stop • There is a lot to explain in a text box about two bus services, then another two bus services, then another two bus services, then another one. • KU • 514/5 • 406/418 • 465
White bus • This is a KU bus, on contract among sites, which does not stop at several stops, and passes, almost empty. • It is a substantial investment by KU in making transport available, for parking is a great matter in the area, as is housing, and wages. • The stories of where it stops are many and varied.
Red bus • This particular bus tried to zoom past outside the stop, and had I not shoved myself in front of it, it would not have stopped. But that is the detail of any one particular journey. • The more substantial matter is its stops, and its fulness, it frequency, its destination.
Stops, interchanges, routes, frequency places,
Real time • This must be the single most significant improvement in public transport since Beck? • There are matters of competition and monopoly, of the sources of the data, of networking and connectivity of design and clutter. • When they don’t work, human agency has to take over, which is another matter. • Intermediate stations?
Real time • The bus experience has been a different matter entirely. • This has been almost total failure. • What is called real time is most frequently simply display of timetable data.
Stops, interchanges, routes, frequency places, informate
You are not told what to do, and on the bus, never informed that there is a change in route pattern.
Much more • This is a much more complicated matter, a major interchange of bus and rail. • What stops where, what goes where? • Buses are being parked for rest periods. • Terminus.
Now for • something completely different. • This is the automatic gate, except it isn’t. • It is driven by the person responsible for despatching trains on the platforms, who have other things to be doing. • There are buttons. • Revenue protection
Another one • These gates once provided access to the lines lower. • We thought we had won this. • Then, after one hundred million was spent on some other gates, we now have to walk the long way round, with everyone else, through the main shopping mall.
Stops, interchanges, routes, frequency places, informate, infuriate
Who is responsible?
It is • possible to do something. • This was the first time I saw this real place indicator which gets you to the Barbican Centre from the entrances to the estate. • The difference is the other direction, trying to find a particular bus stop, for example, the 4 for Waterloo. • Then it all runs out.
Something can be done.
Who, whom? • Short hand expression for listing the agents taking decisions and acting upon them, and who is impacted, positively or negatively. • Part of the problem is identifying roles and disambiguating responsibilities. • Workers • Managers • Academics
• Owners • Politicians, councillors • Officials • Activists • Professionals • For any one of us may be several of these at the same time. Who knows. Or, what ever.
What is to be done? • This is a short-hand expression for listing the actions which might be taken and the agents who could be responsible.
• The last large attempt was following the white paper on Integrated Transport in 1997. That resulted in the Creating Sparks Festival.
• From this will be worked out an action plan.
• This will result in the Festival of Place at the 2009
• This time round follows the Future of Transport study with the European Commission and a series of meetings reporting on the work.
• Then the London Biennale, 2010. •
Just get over it • Or what over • Who gives
• But my high risk strategy is to continue to exert energy on the concepts informate, interchange, integrate, which is a matter of information systems design.
• Just do it • These are expressions I encounter on the approach to these matters which seem to show a post modernist carelessness to the whole matter?
• For myself, I continue to make little knowbots which help me to do things which should be pleasurable and cost almost nothing. • By making these available, if anyone is interested, there they are.
Structure • History
• Information management
• Theory
• Politics
• Education
• Economics
• Practical design
• Business
• Social activism
• Management
• Knowledge sharing
• Technology
Organisation • Kingston University, etc
• UITP
• RBKT, SCC, etc
• European Commission
• SWT, Arrriva, etc
• RSA, etc
• TfL
• National Trust
• DfT
• Ramblers’ Association
• MPs, Select committees
• Living Streets
Data • Place
• Price
• Stop
• Distance
• Time
• Speed
• Journey
• Informate
• Route
• Interchange
• Frequency
• Integrate
- all - design • Landscape Gallery
• Slow motion
• Green and Smart
• STEPS
• Infosys
• Antequeerians
• Infopolecon
• #twalk
• Future transport 2050
• Festival of Place
• Blearning
• Andoids
National Trust
Place, time, frequency, journey
Green and smart, 2009. Information, systems and social change v
