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Reason
April 2007
Staley & Balaker |
How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall The bad logic and failed policies of American transportation planners.   |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Paul McFedries |
Engineering New Traffic Patterns, and New Lingo For Them Engineering new methods of forcing people to drive slower. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2004
Thomas J. Bisacquino |
Mixed-Use Comes to the 'Burbs While the number of mixed-use developments is rising rapidly in city centers, the true wave of the future is in suburbia. |
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... |
BusinessWeek
June 10, 2010
Cliff Edwards |
Innovator: Tod Dykstra The founder of Streetline Networks is selling traffic-control technology that targets the most annoying drivers: those who clog streets in search of cheap parking. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006
Willie D. Jones |
Parking 2.0 Meters go high tech. |
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? |
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
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. |
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... |
IndustryWeek
February 16, 2011 |
Congested Highways Survey shows the actual cost of auto traffic delays. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Uber's New Feature Makes Commuting Home A Little Sweeter For Drivers Uber drivers in the Bay Area now have access to a feature that lets them pick up only riders who wish to travel in the same general direction they are headed. |
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. |
National Defense
August 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Army, Car Makers Push Ahead With Driverless Vehicle Research When it comes to concepts for vehicles that can drive themselves on highways or city streets, the military and automakers have been working on similar paths for several years. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
Job Journal
April 25, 2010 |
Career Snapshot: Truck Driver An improving economy means transport companies will be hiring more truck drivers. |
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
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 |
Job Journal
September 12, 2004
Julia Hollister |
Plenty of Work Behind the Wheel If you like to drive, you can find a career commandeering a wide range of vehicles. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Google's Self-Driving Cars Coming to Mountain View Roads This Summer Google announced today that they will begin formally testing self-driving cars on Mountain View's streets, where the tech giant is headquartered, as part of its efforts to ready the vehicles for the road. |
National Defense
March 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Robert N. Charette |
Smart Systems Make It Easier to Find a Parking Space From an airport system that directs drivers toward open spaces to cities' replacing meters with pay stations, technology is changing the way we park. |
Outside
October 2008 |
Rise and Stall of the Moto-Taxi What gets 50 miles per gallon but not a second look in the U.S.? |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2004
Jed Emerson |
Shifting into Foundation Overdrive Grantmakers' singular focus on payout as usual won't take the sector where it needs to go. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2003
Traci Purdum |
Less Time To Keep On Truckin' New rules on truck drivers are aimed at reducing fatigue-related accidents. The limitation on driving time could raise costs and impact manufacturers. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2005
Traci Purdum |
In The Driver's Seat High costs, decreased hours of service and a lack of trained drivers have trucking companies commanding and getting respect. Great for them, but what does it mean for manufacturers? |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
March 5, 2008
Chuck Tannert |
10 Road Rules to Drive Through Disaster and Save Your Life Expert skills you should master to improve your driving and your chances of avoiding a deadly crash. |
AboutSafety
December 22, 2000 |
How To Protect Workers From Crash Risk Workers are more likely to die from traffic related motor vehicle crashes than from any other hazard on the job including workplace violence and machine related injuries, according to NIOSH of the US. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
March 5, 2007
Dean Foust |
How Technology Delivers For UPS UPSs innovation is an example of how technology can help companies capture institutional knowledge about their customers. |
CRM
September 1, 2006
David Myron |
Downtime Is Dead When consumers' days are filled with all work and no play, it makes communicating with them even more difficult than usual. |
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. |
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
Sarah Kessler |
Uber Is Now Facing A Much Bigger Lawsuit A U.S. district judge granted Uber drivers class-action status in a lawsuit that claims they were incorrectly categorized as contract workers -- which may now apply to tens of thousands of drivers in California. |
