Traffic Congestion

No-one enjoys idling in peak-hour traffic, yet scientists have identified that a blood pressure spike during it doesn't come from frustration but from ultrafine particles flowing into the car. And the average 4.5 mm Hg spike lasts for an entire day.

Through its Maps app, Google has access to a monster trove of daily traffic data – and it's using it to provide cities with free, AI-optimized traffic signal timing suggestions that could reduce stop/starts by 30% and intersection emissions by 10%.

Adding weight to the large body of scientific evidence that has found phenylephrine is as useless as a placebo for nasal congestion, an advisory panel has declared common oral medications ineffective and urged for them to be removed from sale.

In a smart and connected world, it's amazing how dumb our traffic lights can be. A new Melbourne project uses AI to crunch an unprecedented amount of live and historical data, hoping to optimize multi-mode traffic flow and influence behavior.

Startup EAV entered the electric mobility space back in 2019 with a pedal-assist quadracycle, and is now expanding its family of electric vehicles even further introducing a multipurpose cargo van that can be adapted for a range of tasks.

Weekday travel times in the Golden Gate city increased a shocking 62 percent between 2010 and 2016. A growing number of studies are finding that ride sharing services are chiefly to blame The latest ran simulated traffic models with and without ride shares to determine how much impact they make.

​Imagine if instead of paying for downtown parking, you could just have your car cruise the streets by itself while you attended to your business, and then return to pick you up when summoned? A new study suggests that's exactly what driverless cars could do – and it may cause a big problem.

Researchers from MIT say that if drivers kept an even distance between cars rather than tailgating in order to push ahead, traffic flow would remain even. This "bilateral control," could double the speed of the average vehicle on busy highways.

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is sharing yet another vision for the future and this time it's totally underground. The originator of the Hyperloop showed off a concept for escaping rush hour traffic via high-speed conveyance through a network of tunnels at TED in Vancouver on Friday. 

Two years ago Audi revealed it was working on an in-car system that would help drivers hit green lights, and though this type of convenience is a while off yet, the first iteration will be built into certain upcoming models to notify drivers of how long they have to wait for a red to turn green. ​

BMW used Microsoft's Build event to launch a new Personal Mobility Companion iOS app, designed to learn about drivers' commutes and apply traffic information to let them know when best to leave home for arrival at their destination at just the right time.

Fujitsu wants to alleviate the congestion resulting from major events and has begun field trials on a new AI-based smartphone app that aims to find the best candidates for staying behind and the incentive most likely to entice them to do so.