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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...
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 December 2004 Tom McNichol	Roads Gone Wild It's no surprise that the Dutch, a people renowned for social experimentation in practically every facet of life, have embraced new ideas in traffic management. Other countries are following suite.
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.
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...
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.
CRM October 7, 2011 Mark Ryski	The Trouble with Traffic Store traffic is a measure of all the people who visit the store, including buyers and nonbuyers. Traffic is a leading indicator that tells us something about a chain's sales opportunities -- more traffic, more opportunities.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Paul McFedries	Engineering New Traffic Patterns, and New Lingo For Them Engineering new methods of forcing people to drive slower.
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.
Search Engine Watch January 30, 2007 Bryan Eisenberg	Make ROI Your New Year's Resolution Blaming Google for your traffic woes is like a brick and mortar store blaming the city for its traffic. Once they walk through the door of your store, it is your responsibility to convert them.
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.
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.
Search Engine Watch August 24, 2010 Eric Enge	Why You Shouldn't Pursue the Long Tail Don't optimize only for the long tail. Instead, build a site that search engines will view as "trusted" to capitalize and grow traffic over time.
BusinessWeek September 12, 2005 Larry Armstrong	Dodging That #%@! Traffic GPS systems can steer you around traffic jam-ups, but ease of use varies widely.
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Seth Jayson	Takeoff for ASUR After a long wait, real passenger growth has arrived for the Mexican airport operator. Investors, take note.
InternetNews June 1, 2011	Internet Traffic will Hit 966 Exabytes by 2015 New Cisco study forecasts a quadrupling in Internet IP traffic demand over the next four years.
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.
PC Magazine March 14, 2007	Raise Your Profile If a potential customer doesn't know your name, can he find you?
InternetNews March 26, 2010	Mobile Data Traffic Swells 193% You can thank the iPhone for leading the charge when it comes to a massive deluge of new mobile Internet traffic.
InternetNews June 20, 2011	Apache Traffic Server 3.0 Gets Faster The new Apache Traffic Server boasts a 277 percent improvement over Traffic Server 2.0.
Search Engine Watch April 12, 2010 Bas van den Beld	How to Gain Traffic Using Twitter, YouTube Recent developments on Twitter, YouTube will change the lives of search marketers, and show us a new way to look at (non-Google) traffic sources.
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 Eric Smalley	Rules Aim to Get Devices Talking There's no guarantee that future household devices that are designed to be smart will be able to get along with each other in order to seamlessly serve our needs. A set of game-like rules could help devices cooperate with each other.
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
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.
Search Engine Watch January 13, 2011 Kaila Strong	Are You Losing Out On Targeted Social Media Traffic? An overview of the top social media referrer sites, and a few best practices to help you in your social media marketing efforts.
InternetNews April 27, 2011	Russia Leads in Internet Attack Traffic New report from Akamai names Russia as the source of 10 percent of global attack traffic, but is it all really coming from Russia?
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...
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.
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2009 Aaron Shear	Breaking the Norm with Search One untapped way to capture search traffic is to combine content of related items in new ways. Many engines, especially Google, are looking for uncommon combinations of content that typically don't exist together.
Search Engine Watch October 22, 2009 Sage Lewis	All Links Are Not Created Equal As link building evolves and changes over time, we need to look at a variety of factors that determine whether a link is useful.
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
The Motley Fool February 1, 2010 Anders Bylund	Can Google, GE, and IBM Create a Better World? Many household names are working on ways to collect traffic data automatically, then put the data flow through another automated process, and end up with usable traffic reports without any human input.
PC Magazine June 7, 2004	HBX With a simple yet powerful interface, WebSideStory's HBX is a compelling option for high-volume Web sites looking for in-depth analysis of visitor traffic and usage.
Search Engine Watch February 2, 2010 Herndon Hasty	Selling Search up the Chain: Money & Traffic Looking to start a search campaign quickly? Make your case by focusing on the money and traffic that can be gained.
InternetNews June 3, 2010	Bing Gains Ground But Google Reigns Supreme A year after its launch, Microsoft's search engine Bing has managed to carve out a modest 3.5 percent foothold in the search market while Google commands nearly 90 percent.
Search Engine Watch July 18, 2008 William Flaiz	The Holy Grail of SEO The imprecise nature of search engine optimization can put clients on edge. A reliable traffic prediction metric is truly the Holy Grail for search marketers.
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.
Search Engine Watch October 26, 2010 Jeremy Bencken	How to Value Links? Perhaps the hardest question to answer in search engine optimization is how much to budget for link building. Here's how you can establish a fair ROI for link building.
Search Engine Watch August 19, 2010 Jason Tabeling	The Growing Importance of Search Networks and Partnerships Understand traffic sources and how the search engines are set up. Out-optimize your competition. Maximize your accounts.
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.
PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Craig Ellison	Wireless Security Options GhostSurf provides encryption only for specific types of traffic, but SpotLock encrypts all types of traffic.
Fast Company December 1, 2006 Robert E. Calem	Drive Thru A new Internet-powered car-navigation device offers hope for avoiding traffic.
Fast Company January 9, 2012	Is HuffPo Hurting AOL's Traffic? It's been a year since AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million, to beef up traffic. Has it succeeded?
InternetNews October 31, 2005 Jim Wagner	Alert Sounds Alarm From Within Security vendor Alert Logic has launched a hosted subscription service that protects enterprise networks from internal attacks.