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In many ways, Covid has sparked discussions about how we want to live in the future. The lockdown measures have shown how less congestion and noise positively affect quality of life, and how the cityscape is changing with more public space for pedestrians, bicycles and café terraces. The reallocation of street space is a major subject of debate.
Today, most of our cities are still car-centric. We’re so used to traffic jams and parked streets that we don’t even notice the road space that cars actually take up in our cities.
How quickly can 200 people pass a green light?
An animation by PTV Group shows how long it takes to move 200 people in front of a traffic light, using different modes of transport:
• An average of 1.5 people in 133 passenger cars
• 20 passengers in 10 buses
• 40 passengers in 5 trams
• 200 cyclists
• 200 pedestrians
So how much space do cars occupy in our cities?
Not surprisingly, cars prove to be the most inefficient in this regard.
In the animation, cars line up for more than 1km in front of the traffic light compared to the tram (197m), buses (134m) and bicycles (115m). Pedestrians gather for a distance of about 28m.
And how fast did they cross the traffic light once it turned green? Buses and trams take about 30 seconds, followed by pedestrians (about 40 seconds). For cyclists, it takes a little longer for everyone to start, almost 2 minutes.
What about the cars? It takes more than 4 minutes to break the long queue.
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