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The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
September 1, 2020/
In other words, the model shuts people up. It may not be honest, but in the world of transportation politics, there’s nothing more valuable than that.
“It’s not so much about the measurement being wrong, it’s that the whole underlying thesis is wrong”
For the last 70 years, American transportation planners have been using the same model to decide what to build. There’s just one problem: it’s often wrong.
