traffic management

  • Cars parked diagonally along parking meters, Omaha, Nebraska, 1938 (via Wikimedia)

    Yesterday, we received a press release from a company called Pango, which makes an app that allows motorists to pay for on-street parking. (The company's demo video is embedded above.) If you live in a city of any size, this isn't especially newsworthy. Products like Pango have been rolling out for years: some work through apps, some make use of simpler text-to-pay features. In fact, we've seen municipalities deploy more than one such system, perhaps to see what works best. No, the question here isn't about novelty, it's about ease of use and impact on the community. How do such products...

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    Would You Pay $10 A Day To Cut Your Commute By 35 Minutes?

    How much is your time worth? If you live in southern California and drive to work, the answer for some of you seems to be more than $17 an hour. That conclusion is drawn from data contained in an Infrastrurist interview with Jack Finn, the head of toll services for HTNB, an infrastructure firm that...

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    Can Smarter Red Lights Let Cars Drive Greener And Save Gas?

    We've all driven through--or waited a long time at--intersections that have car-sensing traffic lights. Now Denso has modeled the next iterations of a "smart traffic light" system. It would use messaging between vehicles and the traffic-light controller to let the light make better decisions about...

  • Audi Travolution traffic system
    Audi Continues Development Of Fuel-Saving Travolution Traffic System

    Most automakers are focusing their efforts solely on reducing tailpipe emissions of their vehicle lineups through conventional methods such as more efficient engines, advanced catalysts and lighter cars. Attacking vehicle emissions from a different angle, Audi is developing a new traffic management...

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