LeBron James made waves on Twitter when he was spotted commuting to work on a custom mountain bike.
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Florida Cyclist Makes Waves
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Cordon Photo-radar Technology
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012Engadget looks at the new Cordon photo-radar technology.
Developed by Simicon, this new speed sensor promises to take highway surveillance to new heights of precision. Unlike most photo radar systems, which track only one violator at a time, Simicon’s device can simultaneously identify and follow up to 32 vehicles across four .Read more...
What Next? Public Parking Auctions
Monday, January 9th, 2012Wired’s Autopia looks at a new app that auctions public parking spaces.
Parking Auction launched earlier this week on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The matchmaking service is beta-testing, and the folks behind it hope to expand worldwide, creating communities of relaxed, smartphone-armed parkers.
“If I’m parked on the street and wouldn’t mind moving .Read more...
When Vehicles Communicate
Monday, December 5th, 2011Fast Company looks at when vehicles communicate.
Traffic is generally accepted as a necessity of modern life, but it doesn’t have to be. We don’t have traffic because there are too many cars, we have traffic because people are bad drivers and don’t have enough information to make smart decisions. If .Read more...
Traffic Cameras: Safety or Revenue?
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011The Wall Street Journal looks at the debate regarding traffic cameras.
Nationwide, red-light traffic cameras have surged in popularity. More than 550 localities—including New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Chicago—have installed them since the early 1990s, according to a spokesman the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The cameras have resulted in millions .Read more...
Considering Bus Rapid Transit
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011FastCompany.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...
Remote Operators for Air Traffic Control
Monday, October 10th, 2011Wired.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...
Eliminating Left Turns?
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011Tom Vanderbilt’s latest Slate column discuss Diverging Diamond intersections that we have discussed before here and here at the Hub.
There is, however, a cheaper, less disruptive approach, one that promises its own safety and efficiency gains, that has become recently popular in the United States: the diverging diamond interchange. There’s .Read more...
South Carolina’s Operation Rolling Thunder
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011South Carolina is cracking down on drug trafficking in Spartanburg County.
A week-long crackdown on Spartanburg County interstates is over. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright announced Friday that the 6th annual Operation Rolling Thunder ended with more than 1600 traffic stops on I-85 and I-26.
The traffic enforcement operation brought together 72 law enforcement officers from 22 different agencies in .Read more...
Utah’s New Public Transportation Expansion
Thursday, September 8th, 2011The Transport Politic profiles the progress of public transport in Utah.
Much thanks to federal spending, the Salt Lake City metropolitan area practically doubled the size of its TRAX light rail network this weekend, adding two extensions a year early and 20% under budget. Though estimates predict relatively modest ridership on the new .Read more...
Nigeria’s Anti-One-Way Squad
Thursday, September 1st, 2011The Wall Street Journal takes at look at Nigeria cracking down on people driving the wrong way on one-way streets.
Seeking to stem an epidemic of wrong-way driving, Lagos authorities have ratcheted up the standard $160 fine. Scofflaws now also face psychiatric evaluations. Contesting the charge can jack up the fine .Read more...
Examining Abuses at Gateless Toll Lanes
Friday, August 19th, 2011Christine Haughney from the New York Times looks at toll avoiders exploiting the E-ZPass system.
For eight years, Alfred Buono had made it a twice-weekly occurrence: He would drive his car across a bridge from New Jersey to Staten Island and not pay the toll — doing so a total of .Read more...
