A fleet of driverless cars working together to keep traffic moving smoothly can improve overall traffic flow by at least 35 percent, researchers have shown. For autonomous cars to be safely... Read more
If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason. Everybody’s experienced it: a miserable backu... Read more
Large-scale testing is due to begin next year. Your average driver spends a week each year stuck in traffic. So Ozan Tonguz, a telecommunications researcher at Carnegie Mellon Univers... Read more
The continuing increase in gasoline prices around the world over the past decade has also seen an increase in the practice of hypermiling – the act of driving using techniques that max... Read more
The European SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project, which is developing technology to automate slipstreaming of multiple vehicles on highways, is now a year into its three-ye... Read more
Image via Wikipedia If you’ve ever been frustrated by stop-and-go traffic, you might have thought that traffic lights just don’t “get” what’s going on around them… and you’d be right.... Read more
China is home to more people than any other country on Earth, and they’re moving into megacities at a rate that’s simply unprecedented. In fact, just about everything about today... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Traffic avoided: Software uses road sensors, GPS and historical traffic data to predict congestion Onboard navigation and mobile applications can tell drivers how to avoi... Read more