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 [...]
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Tags: FAA, flying car, Terrafugia, traffic 
1 Comment »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 4 Comments »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 7 Comments »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, Google, GPS, Internet Tags: Google, GPS, NAVTEQ, traffic 3 Comments »
