Weather, vehicle collisions, temperature, back-to-school weekend — making sense of every data point that influences traffic is a staggering task. That’s exactly what the Virginia Tech Transportation ...

Despite differences in individual politics and any number of other preferences, one thing many people agree on is how much they loathe getting stuck in traffic. Those that do share the sentiment with ...

In 2007, mathematicians from the University of Exeter showed that the freeway traffic jams that appear to occur for no reason are actually the result of a "backward traveling wave" initiated when a ...