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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.   |
Reason
April 2007
Staley & Balaker |
How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall The bad logic and failed policies of American transportation planners. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007
Kerry Capell |
The Trouble With London's Traffic Tolls Since London imposed an ambitious congestion-pricing scheme in 2003, it has raised the fee to drive into the most heavily congested parts of town by 60%. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2010
Michael Kanellos |
An eBay for Parking Spots World Sensing has an application that lets drivers bid on available parking spaces via a handset. The company is one of the pre-public, and often pre-venture, outfits that IBM is trying to highlight through its Smart Camp initiative. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006
Willie D. Jones |
Parking 2.0 Meters go high tech. |
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. |
CIO
March 25, 2011
Cindy Waxer |
Can a Smartphone App Juice the Market for Electric Cars? A maker of charging stations bets a mobile app will help convince consumers and business partners to put faith in new vehicles. |
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... |
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
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... |
Entrepreneur
May 2002
Mark Henricks |
Flexin' the City Think you know the face of urban America? The U.S. city is in for a workout... |
Fast Company
November 2008 |
New Ways to Measure Energy Use Intelligent systems can now monitor buildings, traffic, even bodies of water. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2010
Travis Hoium |
We're Focusing on the Wrong Electric-Vehicle Market Scooters and commercial vehicles are where progress is really being made. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Electric Car Charging Stations Starting to Spread An expanding network of public car chargers is eliminating one of the hurdles electric vehicles face. |
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... |
Inc.
July 2007
Dalia Fahmy |
SpotScout Wants to Be the eBay of Parking Spaces Investors react to SpotScout's plan to build an online market for parking spots. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2010
April Taylor |
Can NRG and GE Save Electric Cars? If more electric cars were produced, costs would decline. |
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. |
CIO
November 14, 2012
Lauren Brousell |
5 Things You Need to Know About Smart Cities IT applications such as smartphone apps and cloud-based infrastructure management can be powerful tools for improving the quality of life in urban settings. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
IndustryWeek
February 16, 2011 |
Congested Highways Survey shows the actual cost of auto traffic delays. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2004
Keith Bawolek |
What Drives Parking Investments? Parking facilities now present intriguing commercial real estate investments |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Don't Let Electric Vehicles Leave You Stranded Electric vehicles aren't ready for prime time, but there's still money to be made in the industry. |
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. |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Skylar Bergl |
The Rise of Robo-Parking The worst PART about parking in cities is actually finding a place to park. New York company Automotion has eliminated the hunt. |
InternetNews
June 19, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Hacking Parking Meters is Black Hat Business Anything that is connected to a network is a target for IT security research. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
For Gustav-Level Outages, Cities Tap Hybrid Buses for Power This weekend's evacuation measures involving charter and school buses in the New Orleans area was a success, but BAE Systems may soon leverage military research to tap emergency power from hybrid-electric bus fleets. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
The Teamsters Of The 21st Century: How Uber, Lyft, And Facebook Drivers Are Organizing When you think of the Teamsters, you might still think Jimmy Hoffa. But you should also now think Uber, Lyft, and even Facebook. |
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... |
