The Zipper Merge | Oliver Asis | TEDxWilsonPark
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2019
- As you drive down the road, you come to see a ubiquitous orange diamond shape sign saying “ROAD Construction AHEAD” then soon after you see another sign saying “RIGHT LANE CLOSED AHEAD.” And you just so happen to be in the right lane. So now you ask yourself. What are you going to do when you have to merge from 2 to 1 lane? Are you the driver that will move over early ahead of the closure or are you the driver that will use the whole lane until the closure? Oliver explains when and how to merge so you and your fellow drivers can get to your destination safely and quickly using the zipper merge.
A Transportation Engineer working for the California Department of Transportation over 10 years. Oliver says he has the dream job he wanted since he was in the 6th grade. He has loved everything transportation since he was young. He built freeways in his room as a kid and used to pretend he was a traffic reporter. Currently studying for his Professional Engineering license, he has the goal of one day helping improve transportation for all of California. It is his dream to see a transportation system that integrates various modes of transport from bikes, buses, cars, to train. A great transportation system serves all commuters equally. One of his claims to fame is getting to talk to Roman Mars from 99 Percent Invisible about Public Works.
When he is not working on transportation solutions, he is out and about photographing the world. Oliver is also an award winning professional photographer. Specializing in Wedding, Landscape, and Architectural photography, he has won awards from the Professional Photographers of San Diego County and won both the Judges and People’s Choice from Adobe’s CreativeJam. He is currently on a personal quest to visit and photograph all 61 US national parks. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Strange how there's no videos of successful zipper merging in real life.
I love the phrase he uses ‘The way it works’.
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It's easy to prove that that this will NEVER work as described. 🤣
It works in other countries
😂 no it doesn't, not for more than 5 minutes, guarantee it
@@ingeniousmechanic ok I guess you know more then other people who testified it works in their country. I guess you know more then the people who studied the two different merges. Matter of fact I bet you know everything.😂
@@ingeniousmechanicit only doesn’t work when stubborn jackasses refuse to use it.
Are there any actual studies or simulations of this? 40% improvement to "traffic", what does that actually mean. Are 40% more cars making it through that choke point?
In heavy traffic zipper merging works with collaborating. In light traffic short merging lanes are used to cut around everyone
So proud of you Oliver!!
The majority of situations have one lane ending, so they must merge into the thru lane to continue driving forward. The thru lane does not merge, and has no responsibility for the merging drivers.
The merging drivers hold all liability and legal responsibility for a proper merge.....UNLESS OTHERWISE POSTED.
The obstruction to traffic flow usually comes well after the merge point. And only so many cars can pass thru the obstruction at any given time. Therefor it makes no difference how they merged or not, before they got there. UNLESS the obstruction is the merge point itself..
The Zipper merge just makes two shorter lines out of one long line that can obstruct other traffic flow.
But it is still the same number of cars.... just arranged differently. Also many drivers bounce back and forth from lane to lane like it's a game to get ahead a few cars.. This causes accidents and ROAD RAGE by drivers who get passed up from cars that were well behind them in line.
In a single line this would not happen.
The reduction of congestion isn't important AFTER the point of congestion. It is about how much congestion happens BEFORE.
Yes, the amount is the same but rather than a line of cars a mile long, potentially blocking cross traffic at times, you have 2 lines half a mile long and potential fir interference in cross traffic are reduced. Cross traffic also causes even more backup of traffic proceeding to the merge points.
You mentioned a 2 lane road reducing to a 1 lane road and when that is how the road is designed you don't see people complaining about "jumping in line to merge" ir "waiting until the last second" like you do with road work. And I find that interesting considering that when it's a design people seem able to zipper just fine.
@@FreyjaFoxx.x Boeing jetliner, right over your head. You just re-worded the majority of what I already wrote.
100 people surveyed:
“How many of you get into the lane that is CLOSING because the traffic in the lane that is REMAINING OPEN is moving too slowly?”
The answer: all 100 of the people surveyed got into the closing lane because the open lane is too slow.
New question: do you know WHY the open lane is going so slowly?
Breathtaking answer: because the motorists in the open lane are having to BRAKE to let the people in the closing lane get over into the open lane once the barrels start filling up the closing lane.
If you don’t understand this concept, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
Yet another video arguing for the zipper merge but they always use the argument including the word “if”. As in “if people continue to move… or if people merge when they’re supposed to…” we all know that this never happens.
Hey Oliver:
Could you do us (the driving world) a favor and research this a little more?
Either link us up, or do the following computation:
A hundred vehicles leave a city as a normal-traffic group and use a 2-lane interstate to go to a destination 10 miles away. Halfway there, a construction zone closes one lane for one mile. How much time does the zipper save us? Please time-check several examples of early-merge points, such as 4-, 3-, 2-, and 1-mile pre-construction.
Step 1: get into the lane YOU KNOW is about to close.
Step 2: complain because people don’t instantly defer to your preferred merge spot (hint: yes, it’s at the very front of the queue).
Step 3: do this EVERY TIME.
Well, that lane is still OPEN until it's actually closed and we want you to use it. That's why we didn't block it off with cones. We want you to merge within 50 to 100 feet of the taper.
That’s how I always do it.
I proceed to the barrels, slow down drastically so I don’t hit the barrels, then force my car over into the open lane, slowing all of the traffic down considerably.
Would you rather have a 2 inch funnel to fill up a container with water that constantly gets full and you have to wait hours for it to go throughnthe bottleneck? Or a 2 foot funnel that allows the water much more space and distance to travel through a bottleneck and not get blocked up nearly as fast
Wow 40% smoother
🤣🤣
I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you that your cartoon doesn't show all the intricacies of merging on the interstate. The only part I agree with you on is the line will be roughly half the distance long. The time is not going to be any better because of the variables that come with human drivers.
More people denying facts with their feelings. Who knew.
@@LordCyler in the video the car gapping is removed when they come together and that's not reality, the reality is when they come together they back off to get the gapping back again.
"Intricacies" 😂 You mean people thinking that they are entitled to go before others? Also people that really shouldn't be driving cause they don't know how?
So you condone cutting in line? Signs saying merge a mile or two back are useless even dangerous in your mind. A car speeds by you and forces himself in line. I'm sorry for your lack of integrity and you think that is fine. Hopefully everyone will do that to you in every aspect of your life. Maybe when you are dying and someone cuts in front of you at the emergency room doors your last communication will be a thumbs up. It is a total disrespect and lack of integrity.
The sign said the merge was ahead. It's meant to leat you know UP AHEAD you're going to have to merge. It's not telling you that you have to be in that lane THEN.
We put those signs a mile or 2 before we want traffic to merge to give you a heads up. Cause if we didn't yall would drive into the devices (like cones) where we want traffic to merge, which is where we set up the devices to channel the traffic.
EVERY Department of transportation will tell you to zipper merge.
Also, if a 2 lane road narrows down to a 1 lane road, do you say the people in the lane ending are "cutting in line"? Or they should have gotten in the continued lane earlier? Or do you kinda slow down and maybe let the car slightly ahead of you in that open lane merge into the only available lane?