traffic congestion

How would you like to have an extra four days a year to do whatever you please? It's simple -- just move from Los Angeles to Wichita, Kan. and you could chop a whopping 4.24 days each year out of the time you spend commuting. The average American spends 52 minutes a day commuting by car to and...

The hard thing about writing comedy is that it all too often loses its punch by becoming reality. A few weeks ago, I joked that governments could make money by running real-time auctions among cars approaching an intersection, the highest bidder getting the green light. In the current issue of...

The next time you find yourself talking on your cell while inching through a traffic jam, ignore the finger from the driver behind you, because you might be helping traffic planners solve the congestion problem. AirSage Inc. has come up with a clever way to identify highway traffic holdups by...