Traffic jams seem to appear out of nowhere and sometimes for no good reason other than to frustrate you. If you've ever wanted to see just how easy it is for a jam to get started, take a look at ...

Via Brad Plumer: a traffic jam in in a bottle. To me, it’s pretty remarkable how closely the real-world experiment above matches up with this java-based computer traffic simulator. Warning: if you ...

MiTe-μ is a featherweight vehicle simulator developed by MTRI to assist in the development of mixed reality traffic experiments and sophisticated traffic control algorithms. The core purpose of MiTe-μ ...

The image of a backed-up highway leading away from the scene of a natural disaster may soon be history, if researcher Yi-Chang Chiu and his colleagues at the University of Arizona have their way. They ...

Artificial intelligence, if carefully designed, could significantly reduce emergency vehicle delays in congested cities ...

While nearly 600 traffic safety advocates and law enforcement officers convene in Duluth this week, State Patrol troopers were sharpening their decision-making skills Wednesday in a driving simulator.

Roadway safety continues to be a major public health concern. Recent statistics show that more than 30,000 fatalities occur due to motor vehicle accidents, and in the year 2012, motor vehicle crashes ...

It’s a question traffic engineers all over Florida face: Will a new sign or light warning of a dangerous intersection help, hurt or have no effect? Right now, the only way to find out is to try it and ...