Should you walk or take a bus ? Maths and Commonsense
Many a times it becomes difficult to decide if you should take a bus or just walk when you feel like you are close to the place where you want to get. For example if you just need to walk around 2km to reach to your friends house taking a bus might take much time because of number of stoppage and waiting time. Instead of you could just walk down you can beat the bus.
Walk or Bus is a simple concept which says
if you have N blocks to travel, you should only wait for the bus if it is less than N minutes away.
We assume that buses travel at 30 mph, and that the average person walks a 20 minute mile. If you walk faster, you can also consider the entries in blue, equal to a 15 minute mile.
It’s simple math or just common sense but many of fail to realize that. So do you take a bus or just walk ?
Posted on 29th September 2009 by Ashish Mohta , A Professional Tech blogger, Editor and Writer who talks about solving day to day problems of people who use computer. He also writes on How to use the applications like Office, PC tips, Online tools,Browsers and more. All posts by Ashish Mohta | Connect with me @ Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook | Stumble
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