As a regular commuter, I spend a lot of time thinking about traffic. I speculate about the causes of traffic jams, how traffic patterns emerge over time from specific human behaviors, and the technologies that could be implemented to better control or reduce this flow. I often arrive at two broad potential solutions to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘traffic’
Flying Cars Are Not The Answer
June 29th, 2010
Posted in Technology, Transportation Infrastructure 
Tags: FAA, flying car, Terrafugia, traffic 
No Comments »Should the U.S. invest in High Speed Rail?
April 13th, 2010
There’s been a lot of discussion recently relating to the deployment of regional American high speed rail systems. The president, via the Recovery Act, has committed an initial $8 billion to the program through which several potential high speed rail corridors have been identified. And while the thought of “bullet” trains blazing across [...]
Posted in Technology, Transportation Infrastructure Tags: airplanes, Amtrak, high speed rail, infrastructure, traffic 2 Comments »Review: Cydle T43H GPS Receiver
February 5th, 2010
There’s certainly no shortage of GPS enabled devices these days. Cameras use GPS to geotag pictures, worried parents use GPS to track their kids, and increasingly, smartphones use GPS to aid in personal navigation. While the latter of these examples may ultimately foil the presently thriving personal navigation device industry, reducing it to yet another [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Reviews, Satellite and HD Radio Tags: Cydle T43H, GPS, HD Radio, review, traffic 6 Comments »The fight against traffic continues…
September 3rd, 2009
We noted a few days ago that a real-time traffic monitoring and trending feature had been added to Google Maps. Today, NAVTEQ announced a partnership with Nokia which will provide the company with real time GPS position and velocity data from Nokia phones. The data will enhance NAVTEQ’s existing suite of tremendously popular traffic routing [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Google, Internet Tags: Google, GPS, NAVTEQ, traffic 3 Comments »Google is tracking you (but please let them!)
August 25th, 2009
Google is tracking you. Well, they’re not actually tracking you…they’re tracking your cell phone. And only if it’s a smart phone that uses Google Maps with My Location enabled. And they claim it’s completely anonymous. And it’s only in select cities…for now. But no matter what or how, the result is one of the coolest [...]
