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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.   |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Paul McFedries |
Engineering New Traffic Patterns, and New Lingo For Them Engineering new methods of forcing people to drive slower. |
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. |
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
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 |
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. |
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... |
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. |
AskMen.com
Patrick Rowlings |
How To Avoid Car Accidents Here are some dos and don'ts that can help minimize your chances of becoming a statistic. |
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 |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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... |
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
December 26, 2010
Anil Das |
Does a Driverless Car Mean Road Safety? Google's automated car brings up lots of questions about new legalities. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Roadways: Gallery The unique attributes of some far flung highways with comments by engineering experts. |
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
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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
May 27, 2011
Thomas Lee |
Forget the iPhone. Your Car Is the Ultimate Mobile Device -- but How Far Should That Go? Cars are becoming more and more like moving smartphones. Should we be worried? |
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. |
