Can interactive technology ease urban traffic jams?:
Traffic congestion is a serious problem in the United States, but a new analysis shows that interactive technology -- ranging from 511 traffic information systems and roadside cameras to traffic apps like Waze and Google Maps -- is helping in cities that use it.
Potentially, the researchers said, technology could limit the need to widen and expand roadways while saving commuters time and money and lessening environmental damage.
[...] Pavlou [author of the report] said the study suggests alternatives to simply building more and bigger roads to keep up with population and traffic growth. Using large-scale technology systems in conjunction with real-time traffic apps at the individual level is less expensive and more effective than only spending funds to expand and maintain roadways, he said .
Journal Reference:
Zhi (Aaron) Cheng, Min-Seok Pang, Paul A. Pavlou. Mitigating Traffic Congestion: The Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Information Systems Research (DOI: sre20190894)
The real question is, when cars honk does Pavlou's mouth water?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @01:13AM
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Boomers forced every business to close at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space.
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Boomers caused the worst economic depression in history to give Boomers a safe space.
Whiny entitled Boomers are the worst generation ever to live.
No longer.
Boomers must be made to pay with their lives for crimes against civilization.
The Final Solution to COVID-19 is to exterminate every Boomer.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @01:54AM (1 child)
There aren't any traffic jams because there isn't any traffic because there aren't any cars on the roads because everyone is ordered to stay home because Boomers did COVID-19.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @02:25AM
Dear deluded senile moderator,
Are you really truly delusional enough to believe traffic jams exist in America under COVID-19? You should get your head examined by a bullet, Boomer.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:55AM (2 children)
Smartphone videos exposed the police brutality, among other things.
Funny thing. The pandemic seem to have stopped the cops killing blacks and the school shooting, for a bit. Didn't last too long.
Don't forget the white woman trying to screw the black dude in the Central Park. Not to mention Asian bashing, including those doctors and nurses at the frontline of covid battle.
This is how empire self-destruct.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @04:51AM
What does that "MAGA" mean? Does it mean Make America Good Again...Dump Trump?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @05:33AM
Niggers kill 10, wound 39 on memorial day in Chicago, yet all the news (and you apparently) care about is some lady who called the police and said "african-american".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @04:09AM (3 children)
What happens when they "ease" urban traffic jams is that an algorithm like google's starts routing hundreds of impatient pricks through backstreets and past my house. Which makes everyone pissed off and want to put speed bumps and whatnot, which riles folks up about taxpayer money and government overreach. Before you know it, it's civil war. So please - sit in the traffic jam and suck it up.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @05:13AM (2 children)
Those apps had large trucks cutting through our little townhouse community as a shortcut. We put up one chain blocking egress/entrance for the "straightest shot" through our neighborhood. Not a shortcut now.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @06:02AM (1 child)
What Communist freedom-hating country was this in?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @04:00PM
It was 100% private property. "Road" included.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Unixnut on Saturday May 30 2020, @07:30AM (6 children)
> Potentially, the researchers said, technology could limit the need to widen and expand roadways while saving commuters time and money and lessening environmental damage.
What would potentially be a faster, cheaper, and easier way of achieving even better gains, is to move away from the concept that you have to all sit in one office every working day. A large majority of "white collar" jobs can be done from home, and that people can be productive that way. COVID forced companies to go this route (or cease trading), and the morning/evening rush hour has all but vanished in my area, yet (at least in my company and others I know), work carries on as normal, if not with even better productivity.
The only traffic you see now are people who must be physically present to do their job, and that seems to be a relatively small amount of people (or at least, a relatively small amount of people that commute by car). Amazing to think how many man hours are wasted each day sitting in traffic needlessly, let alone the other negative consequences of doing so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @08:15AM (5 children)
Instead of sitting in traffic, I now sit in my underwear wondering how pointless my job is. At least the anger used to hide the depression. Now what genius?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @09:56AM (2 children)
Sit at the window and shake your fist at every passerby?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @11:33AM (1 child)
You have a window? Lucky you, I stare at the fridge. But I do have a nice counter/desk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @03:22AM
You have a fridge? I sweat and watch the ceiling fan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @07:02PM (1 child)
Claim your UBI and enjoy. But stay home and save lives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @07:19PM
UBI? I'll loot a TV instead.