Engadget 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...
CNBC looks at the world’s best airports from a design perspective. LaGuardia is not going to make the list…
Denver International Airport
Singapore Changi Airport
Beijing International Airport
Fast Company looks at the fuel efficiency of America’s trucking industry.
“Trailer aerodynamic improvements are much less developed,” the 2009 DOT study reported.”There is little interaction between tractor and trailer manufacturers, and as a result, there has been no effort to treat tractor-trailer aerodynamics as an integrated whole.”
A rectangular metal box, it .Read more...
Fast 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...
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...
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...
Tom 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...
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A Yahoo.com report looks into scams related to traffic cameras.
The scam is simple. A no-good type picks your phone number at random and, once you answer, tells you that you have an overdue red light camera fine. The only way to avoid a significant late fee, a court case, or .Read more...
The 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...
