Articles tagged “traffic”

Travel reports are revealing that people are going to be spending more time on the road this year than during any other pandemic year. One company is introducing a new technology to make sure people are actually spending that time in transit, not at a traffic light.

As the millennial population joins the workforce, alternative transportation include bikes, carpools and public transit become more widely used -- and with good reason.

Using apps to crowdsource congressional complaints is a clever idea, especially when frustrated and bored travelers are your target user. The challenge will be raising awareness of the app and the cause in order to build enough volume.

Few people are focusing on US Airways' traffic numbers. The merger with American, the antitrust probes, and whether the combined airlines will be forced to divest some slots at Washington are the hot-button issues.

Despite it's massive size and traffic, Atlanta still manages to move passengers through with minimal fuss and a fraction of the hassles you find at New York-JFK, Chicago-O'Hare, or LAX.

Message boards and monitoring systems might help reduce collisions and make drivers more aware, but the only way to really fix a traffic problem is to increase infrastructure for public transportation.

It’s impressive to see a city taking the time and money to offer innovative tech solutions to everyday travel problems as many of the currently available options are crowdsourced or privately built apps.

You can crowdsource all the data you want, but it will take an engaged and compliant population to buy in to the system to produce any kind of change.

Although New Yorkers appreciate Mayor Bloomberg's effort to change the image of city streets through bike lanes and shares, most residents stick to yellow cabs or subways to navigate the crowded streets.

This Google service relies both on Android users worldwide and use of Google Navigation and as those numbers grow so should the traffic snapshots from back roads in Kalamazoo to the German Autobahn.