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Fast Company
September 2009
Kate Rockwood |
Janette Sadik-Khan Wants New Yorkers to Walk This Way Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, cut through the congested knots of Manhattan traffic with a novel concept: Close some roads to cars.   |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Does High-Tech Highway Design Make us Less Safe? Tom Vanderbilt's latest book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), has a recurring theme: Making things safer may actually make them more dangerous. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Paul McFedries |
Engineering New Traffic Patterns, and New Lingo For Them Engineering new methods of forcing people to drive slower. |
IDB America
October 2001
Agostino della Porta |
Surviving the streets An IDB transportation expert argues that Latin America's governments can reduce traffic fatalities quickly and inexpensively... |
Scientific American
January 2009
Linda Baker |
Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Megan Santosus |
Stuck in Traffic? IT Can Ease the Commute Some methods of decreasing traffic involve heavy costs and manual labor, but there are technological workarounds. For example, some technologies relay detailed traffic information to properly equipped cars. Traffic signals can also be improved. |
Wired
November 2001
Dan Baum |
The Ultimate Jam Session It takes more than technology to solve the world's traffic problems. While Singapore succeeds with an iron fist, the United States waits for the invisible hand... |
Reason
March 2009
Adrian Moore & Sam Staley |
A Better New New Deal How can we get the most bang for our transportation buck? Here are six ideas for the new president and cash-strapped governors. |
PC Magazine
August 29, 2007
Frank Washburn |
Future Watch: Traffic-Predicting Software Trying to navigate through a traffic jam can be downright nightmarish when you're late to work. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Intelligent Cities Expo To celebrate the planners and engineers at this Hamburg expo, we've gathered some particularly smart urban solutions from around the world. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Logan Ward |
Highway of the Future: Interstate Intelligence Our nation's highways are being primed for a major transformation, one that will bring them into the wireless information age suitable for the wireless capabilities of our cars. |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Adaptive Lights Organize Traffic A researcher in Belgium has devised a way to allow traffic lights to self-organize to improve traffic flow. The method, which taps the self-organizing principles of social insects, does away with central control. |
Reason
April 2007
Staley & Balaker |
How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall The bad logic and failed policies of American transportation planners. |
AskMen.com
Patrick Rowlings |
Are You a Dangerous Driver? Here are some signs that suggest that you're a dangerous driver -- with a rating system as a guide. Keep these tips in mind and you'll reduce your risk of a collision. |
Science News
March 16, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Highway Relativity Freeway drivers often get the sense that the other lane is moving faster than the one they're in. A number of recent mathematical studies have shown that this owes to both truth and quirks of perception... |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
Coelingh & Solyom |
All Aboard the Robotic Road Train Semi autonomous cars will play follow the leader, giving drivers a rest and saving fuel |
Science News
September 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Waves of Congestion From a physicist's point of view, traffic flow can be regarded as a "many-body system of strongly interacting bodies." Various studies have revealed that such systems can show wavelike behavior and abrupt transitions from one state to another... |
Fast Company
May 2014
Adele Peters |
Safer Crossing A firm called Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects is trying to reduce accidents by rethinking how people get from one side of the street to the other. |
Science News
November 20, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Cruise Control and Traffic Flow A physicist at the University of Michigan has used computer simulations, applying concepts from statistical mechanics, to study how the use of adaptive cruise-control technology might affect traffic flow... Puzzle of the Week... |
Wired
April 2002
Andrew Tilin |
You Are About To Crash After decades spent designing smarter airbags, antilock brakes, and collision-avoidance systems, Detroit has set its sights behind the wheel. Now the cutting edge of car safety is the driver. Brace yourself... |
AskMen.com
May 9, 2002
Scott Roush |
9 Ways To Become A Better Driver By taking a defensive approach to driving, you may help prevent yourself from getting into an accident or altercation with other people on the road. Here are just a few tips on how you can drive safely... |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Siddharth Philip |
Driving in India: Cars, Corruption, Collisions In India, the roads are dangerous, the lawlessness is rampant, and the highways are getting more crowded by the minute. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Big Brother Is Ticketing You Local governments love them. Drivers hate them. Are traffic cameras really the best way to improve safety? |
BusinessWeek
November 14, 2005
Ian Rowley |
Cars That Brake When You Don't Japan leads the way in high-tech gadgets that help prevent auto accidents. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers Real-Time Traffic Reports Largely overlooked during the holiday craziness last month, Yahoo introduced real-time traffic information for 70 major U.S. cities. |
PC World
December 22, 2006
Michael S. Lasky |
Real-Time Traffic Info Gets You Past Jams Dash Express combines GPS data with traffic reports to find the fastest routes. |
The Motley Fool
October 10, 2010
Anil Das |
Google Tests Driverless Cars The company's blog says the project could make roads safer and free up commuting time. |
AskMen.com
November 6, 2003
William Glass |
Keeping Your Cool In A Traffic Jam To alleviate this stress, take steps to keep your mind active and be productive while stuck in traffic. This includes new approaches both before and during the commute. |
Technology Research News
July 27, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Traffic model maps congestion Researchers from Oxford University are investigating ways to design better networks. The research is aimed at finding ways to ease bottlenecks in beneficial networks, ways to disrupt unwanted networks, and ways to design better networks. |
Mother Jones
February 2001
Sue Halpern |
Easy Riders Thousands of bicyclists across the country are creating a monthly Woodstock on wheels... |
Wired
January 2001 |
Verge Transportation Analysis Simulation System: The software helps urban planners predict the relative impact of potential public projects on traffic flow and surrounding neighborhoods... |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
This Is How Google's Driverless Cars Navigate Tricky Roadblocks In a new blog post, Google shows us how its smart cars assess and navigate some of the trickier traffic scenarios, like, say, a road construction bottleneck near its Mountain View campus. |
Salon.com
January 25, 2002
Christopher Ketcham |
Cycling in hell and loving it Forget hamstering at the gym: I choose the challenge of the Urban Death Match! |
Wired
August 2008
Josh McHugh |
Tom Vanderbilt's Why We Drive the Way We Do Unlocks How to Unclog Traffic Researcher uses mathematical algorithms to determine the best decisions to make when stuck in traffic. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Monica Heger |
Human Travel Patterns Surprisingly Predictable Individual travel routines, as tracked by cellphone signals, provide useful data on human travel behavior. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007
David Weigel |
No Need for Speed A town re-regulates its roads: Sometimes a stop sign is not a stop sign. In the scenic planned community of Sunriver, Oregon, residents and visitors can glide through intersections without fear of a ticket. |
Technology Research News
June 29, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Physics maps city complexity Researchers used existing biological and social networking models to analyze city streets. Area traffic was directly proportional to the ease of navigation, and street grids were complicated as areas tried to avoid getting too much traffic. |
BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
Larry Armstrong |
Dodging That #%@! Traffic GPS systems can steer you around traffic jam-ups, but ease of use varies widely. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Self-Driving Cars Will Be The Biggest Auto Safety Innovation Ever Like so many things in life, the future of driving is automated. In fact, autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic accidents by 90%, according to a new report from McKinsey. |
Popular Mechanics
July 19, 2007
Paul Weissler |
6 New Car Technologies in Your Not-So-Distant Future From navigational systems for the kids to cruise control for drowsy driving to cleaner fuel conversions, here's what's on the horizon for Volkswagen vehicles. |
PC Magazine
July 7, 2004 |
Dashboard Traffic Feeds One of technology's pipe dreams will become reality this fall: live traffic data streamed to your car, giving you the option to detour around accidents and traffic jams. |
Scientific American
July 2008
Sarah Simpson |
Are Hybrid Cars Too Quiet to Be Safe for Pedestrians? Pedestrians, used to loud engine noise, have less warning when a car powered by a hybrid or electric motor approaches. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
John Voelcker |
Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge Six of 11 autonomous vehicles finish 90-kilometer course with no major accidents. |
InternetNews
August 29, 2005
Naomi Graychase |
Motorola Mesh Helps Drivers Currently helping race car divers, the Motorola's Motodrive mesh could someday help every commuter on the road. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2003
Patricia Panchak |
Stuck In The Slow Lane Manufacturers have implemented technology and new processes to improve the efficiency, reliability and security of distribution systems. But is the nation's infrastructure able to handle the load? |
Fast Company
February 2011
Stephanie Schomer |
Thomas Broberg's Vision for Volvo's Crash-Free Future Deb Citrin is rethinking how to market products for the elderly -- by targeting their aging children. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Bob Parks |
Robot Buses Pull In to San Diego's Fastest Lane In response to heavy traffic loads, San Diego Country is working on a dedicated truck and bus lanes with lane-keeping sensors and adaptive cruise controls. |
CIO
July 15, 2003
Malcolm Wheatley |
How IT Fixed London's Traffic Woes In a nation known for spectacular IT failures, a new traffic reduction scheme has gained global attention for its smashing success. The secret? Strong project management applied to well-designed systems. |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Mike Cohen |
A Beautiful Game and Really Ugly Traffic Jams Middle-class South Africans' aversion to using public transport has created big traffic snarls at the World Cup. |
IDB America
January 2004
Paul Constance |
Chile's toll-road revolution How one country is using long-term concessions to modernize infrastructure while freeing up funds for social programs |
