Transportation
Real-world frictions in getting from place to place. They include railway booking and overcrowding, unreliable digital navigation, road potholes, flight rescheduling and toll tag failures.
20 frictions
- Digital Navigation Becomes Unreliable When Connectivity or Road Conditions Change FJ-000031
- Ride-Hailing Apps Can Leave Passengers at the Wrong Destination FJ-000032
- Travellers Still Miss Affordable Flight and Hotel Prices Despite Price Alerts FJ-000033
- Railway Passengers Can Experience Poor Service Without Effective and Timely Complaint Resolution FJ-000034
- High-Demand Tatkal Booking Can Become Extremely Difficult During Urgent Travel Needs FJ-000035
- Railway Systems Have Limited Visibility Into Unmet Passenger Demand After Tickets Sell Out FJ-000036
- Long-Distance Train Journeys Can Become Internet Dead Zones Across Remote Areas FJ-000037
- General Railway Coaches Can Become Dangerously Overcrowded Despite Passengers Holding Valid Tickets FJ-000038
- Fixed Advance Booking Windows Can Create High-Stress Competition for Railway Tickets FJ-000039
- Daily Traffic Jams Take Hours From People's Day Even After Metro and Signal Improvements FJ-000086
- Road Potholes Have No Simple Way to Reach the Authorities Who Should Repair Them FJ-000090
- Rescheduling a Flight After a Disruption Is Hard, With Few Options and Slow Support FJ-000091
- Preventable Human and Technical Failures Still Appear Among the Causes of Air Accidents FJ-000092
- Preventable Track, Wiring, and Human Errors Still Appear Among the Causes of Train Accidents in India FJ-000093
- EV Battery Percentage Does Not Tell Riders Whether the Vehicle Can Deliver the Power They Need FJ-000139
- Affordable Bicycles Are Simple to Ride but Hard to Keep Reliable for People Who Depend on Them FJ-000160
- A Car Battery Can Lose Starting Power Without Warning, Leaving the Driver to Diagnose a No-Start FJ-000180
- When an Electronic Toll Tag Fails in the Lane, the Driver Cannot See the Information the System Uses and Is Left to Prove or Pay FJ-000181
- When a Bag Is Held at X-Ray Screening, Travellers May Not Understand What Happens Next FJ-000194
- Passengers Hear and Feel Aircraft Engine Changes Without an Understandable Explanation of What Is Normal FJ-000210