The IEEE released a new study that says 90% of traffic accidents could be eliminated if current technologies were adopted by all vehicles.
Nearly every traffic accident caused by driver error – up to 90 percent of all crashes – could be eliminated if existing intelligent transportation technologies were implemented in .Read more...
The United States Department of Transportation proposed to eliminate a mandate for replacing traffic signs based on the potential costs related to ‘menu costs‘.
The Washington Post reports:
Although the order came from Washington, the burden of paying for hundreds of thousands of new signs — at costs ranging from $30 to .Read more...
The Atlantic looks at the idea of frequent flier miles for city commutes.
Stanford’s Balaji Prabhakar is one of those computer scientists who has become fascinated by the networks of the physical world. After working for years on cloud computing, Prabhakar has turned his attention not to social networks, but to “societal .Read more...
FastCompany.com looks at ideas to reduce carbon emissions.
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): This is far from a new technology, as the first bus rapid transit was introduced in Curitiba, Brazil in 1974. BRT is generally associated with dedicated lanes, elevated bus stops to expedite exit and entry, and high frequency. When implemented .Read more...
DARPA is awarding one lucky company $500,000 to study the possibility of sending a human to a neighboring star. The New York Times looks at the new ‘star shot’.
The awarding of that grant, on Nov. 11 — 11/11/11 — is planned as the culmination of a yearlong Darpa-NASA effort called .Read more...
Wired.com talke about handling air traffic control from remote locations.
Air traffic control towers may someday go the way of the lighthouse. At least, that’s the goal of a system being developed by Saab with Sweden’s LFV air traffic control service in which landing instructions are barked not from a four- .Read more...
Gizmodo, of all blogs, reports on the expanded use of 3D laser scanners by police in the UK.
In the UK as in the US, a car wreck involving injuries or fatalities must be painstakingly recorded and preserved for insurance and court proceedings. Police investigators might block off the roadway for .Read more...
