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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 January 19, 2004 |
London's Mayor Is Back In Labour's Fold Tony Blair took a big bite of humble pie on Jan. 6 when he gave the green light for maverick London Mayor Ken Livingstone to be readmitted to the Labour Party. |
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. |
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. |
Reason April 2007 Staley & Balaker |
How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall The bad logic and failed policies of American transportation planners. |
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. |
Fast Company July 2009 Dan Macsai |
Three Lessons in "Rational" Prices Raising Ethical Questions These three business examples illustrate what can happen when "rational" prices raise ethical questions. |
IndustryWeek February 16, 2011 |
Congested Highways Survey shows the actual cost of auto traffic delays. |
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. |
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 Emily Thornton |
Roads To Riches Why investors are clamoring to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports - and why the public should be nervous. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Justin Mullins |
Ring of Steel II The ring of steel, one of the most sophisticated security systems on the planet, is a network of cameras that provides comprehensive video coverage of a large part of the City of London. Now other cities want to follow London's lead, with New York City at the head of the queue. |
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... |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 John Voelcker |
Plug-ins and Hybrids and Diesels, Oh My! Two automotive conferences show the impact of public policy on core vehicle designs |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2008 David Blanchard |
A Taxing Solution to the Transportation Problem Updating the highways and surface transportation could cost $225 billion and take 50 years. |
Fast Company June 2009 Tim McKeough |
High-Design Public Bus? Maybe in London Aston Martin, the storied automaker, has teamed with architecture superfirm Foster + Partners to give the famed double-decker Routemaster bus a makeover. |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 Tom Lowry |
The CEO Mayor How New York's Mike Bloomberg is creating a new model for public service that places pragmatism before politics. |
Chemistry World April 4, 2014 Emma Stoye |
London launches Europe-wide hydrogen vehicles project The Mayor of London's office has signed a 31 million pound deal with car manufacturers, hydrogen fuel suppliers and energy consultants to establish the infrastructure to support hydrogen powered vehicles across Europe. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
BusinessWeek March 3, 2011 Steve Rothwell |
Avoiding the Hell That Is Heathrow Faraway airfields tout their lack of crowds and easier transit options |
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. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor February 27, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Design chosen for rebuilding of Ground Zero After months of speculation, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has selected an architectural team to rebuild the World Trade Center site. |