Something slowing you down? (Image: Image Source / Rex Features)
YOUR flight leaves in 10 minutes and you’ve only just made it through security. As you run to your gate you come to a corridor with a moving walkway. Should you hop on?
Maybe not. People on travelators actually tend to slow their pace, making time-savings minimal, and a new study helps to explain why.
, a locomotion researcher at Princeton University, created two mathematical models of how people travel on such walkways (). In the first, he assumed people walk in a way that minimises…
