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BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
Larry Armstrong |
Dodging That #%@! Traffic GPS systems can steer you around traffic jam-ups, but ease of use varies widely.   |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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
February 15, 2008
Dan Tynan |
Auto Technology: Same Gear, New Services For this year's cars, personal navigation and search services will be in the driver's seat. |
PC Magazine
February 16, 2005
Bill Howard |
The Digital Car The $50,000 Acura RL is perhaps the finest example of the marriage of automotive, computing, and entertainment tech. |
IndustryWeek
February 16, 2011 |
Congested Highways Survey shows the actual cost of auto traffic delays. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2011
Anders Bylund |
How Androids Are Killing Garmin The latest update of Google's mobile maps app makes it perfectly clear that the old navigation giants must change radically -- or die. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Traffic.com Ready to Roll? The traffic-monitoring service is a cool company. But is it really prepared for the public markets? It appears that Wall Street is testing whether investors are willing to take on riskier IPOs. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
InternetNews
April 14, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Auto Show Puts Networking in the Driver's Seat Automakers are transforming the family car from simple transportation into rolling entertainment and information centers. |
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. |
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... |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Larry Armstrong |
Acura's Surprise Showstopper The new RL looks good, drives like a dream, and brims with techno-goodies. |
InternetNews
May 11, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Adding Real-Time Info to Local Searches Researchers at Microsoft have developed a service called SenseWeb, which will take data from locally-placed sensors to provide real-time information on everything from local gas prices to traffic flows. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Cisco Gains Traction In The Connected Road Race In the latest installment of their ongoing expansion into the Internet of Things, Cisco recently announced an agreement with Swiss security firm AGT International to develop smart traffic systems for cities around the world. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 1, 2004
Erin Joyce |
You Too Can Talk to Your Car Honda teams with IBM to roll out new speech recognition systems in some 2005 models. And they'll find you the closest restaurant. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Nothing Pedestrian About Google The search king extends its reach to public transportation with its Transit Trip Planner service. Given the stock's upward trajectory, investors in Google at its current price of 90 times earnings are surely hoping that this latest innovation will be worth it. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Paul McFedries |
Engineering New Traffic Patterns, and New Lingo For Them Engineering new methods of forcing people to drive slower. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 13, 2008
Judy Mottl |
NY Muni Wireless Network Launch in Sight New York City's most extensive municipal wireless network is a month away from launch. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 11, 2015
Dina Gerdeman |
A Road Map to Fix America's Transportation Infrastructure Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers a road map to roadway recovery in her new book, Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2005
Dan Koeppel |
You are (absolutely, precisely) here GPS applications are taken to the next level and help you avoid traffic, keep track of your children, or monitor your workouts. |
CIO
August 1, 2001
Lafe Low |
Up, Up and... Still Here A recent report proposes a complete reshuffling of the nation's air traffic patterns. Currently, planes do not fly from point A to point B in a straight line. Free-flight routes would take a more direct path from takeoff to landing... |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
December 1, 2006
Robert E. Calem |
Drive Thru A new Internet-powered car-navigation device offers hope for avoiding traffic. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
National Defense
July 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Air Traffic Technology Drive Stalled by Colliding Agendas Burgeoning growth in commercial aviation and the increasing pressure on air traffic control is spurring debate on whether U.S. air travel can remain safe and secure. |
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... |
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. |
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
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... |
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. |
