What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a clear treatment of induced demand across transport modes whenever threads debate road expansion versus transit.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Oh The Urbanity!

Topic

induced demand

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• There's a number of key differences, mostly in how things scale with increased use. * Car transit is typically scaled through increased space allocation. Public transit is typically scaled through increased utilization of the same space. * Car transit is limited at about 2000 vehicles/lane/hour. …

• > Did creating the iPhone induce demand for iPhones that otherwise would not have been there? Was there pent up demand for iPhones that was sated by their creation? Invention is the mother of necessity. — Marshal McLuhan > In the same way, it seems …

• > Cities should be inducing demand for getting around. This is mentioned in the latest NJB video, "More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing": > The difference for induced demand for cars, and induced for other modes of travel, is that cars are a extremely …