A study has shown that the world's fastest average pedestrian pace is
in
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ten?
1) Singapore (Singapore): 10.55
2) Copenhagen (Denmark): 10.82
3) Madrid (Spain): 10.89
4) Guangzhou (China): 10.94
5) Dublin (Ireland): 11.03
6) Curitiba (Brazil): 11.13
7) Berlin (Germany): 11.16
8) New York (United States of America): 12.00
9) Utrecht (Netherlands): 12.04
10) Vienna (Austria): 12.06
What's more, the average pace has increased by 10% in the past ten
years. The big surprise is that the pace is faster in Dublin
than in New York. I suppose New Yorkers are packed so tightly
together that they have to go slower.
In fact, if you sort by pedestrian speed per unit of population
density, Dublin comes out on top.
1) Dublin
2) Utrecht
3) Guanzhou
4) Vienna
5) Berlin
6) Curitiba
7) Madrid
8) Copenhagen
9) Singapore
10) New York
So Singaporians are the ones who move the fastest, but the Dubliners
are the best at plowing through crowds.
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As a Dubliner, this is mental! I have always thought we were great at 'plowing thorugh crowds, especially on Grafton street ... now I know
Have you read "Geography of Time" by Robert Levine? A fascinating book.
Readers may wish to know that the numbers next to each city are in units of seconds per 60 metres.
Sorry, that should be seconds per 60 feet or seconds per 18 metres (approx.)
Just out of curiosity, is there any significance in the units being per 60 feet? Just wasn't sure if it had a relation to typical city traffic/map structure.
So close! People from Singapore are Singaporeans.
If anyone is interested, the equivalent metric speed for a walking Singaporean is 1.733 m/s.