Progress Report on Traffic App Before Routine
Commuters continue to check live traffic before routes that have not changed since the app was installed.
Reporting Period: Ongoing, with no projected end date Status: Stable with no deviation Prepared for: Internal review
Summary
The behavior under review involves daily consultation of a traffic navigation application immediately prior to commencing a route of known duration and fixed origin. The route has not changed. Traffic conditions on the route change marginally and are not acted upon. The consultation continues.
Current Metrics
- Route familiarity: high
- Route alternatives available: 1 (never selected)
- App consultations per commute: 1
- Consultations resulting in route change: 0
- Consultations resulting in time savings: unverifiable
- Consultations resulting in confirmed preparedness feeling: consistent
Status of Key Activities
The subject opens the application before departure. The application displays a route the subject already knows. The application estimates an arrival time the subject could calculate without the application. The subject notes the arrival time and proceeds.
When the application displays a red segment indicating congestion, the subject considers this for approximately four seconds. The subject then takes the known route, which passes through the red segment. The red segment is slower. The subject had expected this. The application was consulted before departure and was therefore considered responsible for preparing the subject for this outcome.
Observed Anomaly
On one occasion, the subject discovered a significant incident blocking the usual route and selected the alternative. This event is now cited as evidence that the daily consultation is warranted. The event occurred eleven months ago. The consultation has occurred approximately two hundred and thirty times since. The ratio is not tracked.
Projected Activities
The consultation will occur before tomorrow's commute. The route will remain unchanged. The application will be credited with the successful commute whether or not it contributed to it.
Recommendation
None issued at this time. The behavior has reached the stability threshold at which intervention would require more organizational effort than the behavior costs.