Why We Need Less Green Arrows In reviewing the top ten questions asked this week, #7 actually had to do with traffic engineering (#3 was interesting but unrelated to traffic engineering — but if you’re curious, yes, the medicine is helping). Question #7 had to do with...
But There’s an App for That (Coming Soon) A study from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows that people using their phones behind the wheel double their chances of being involved in an accident. And if you have two phones, well, you can do the math. But...
Challenge: Avoid Rush Hour For One Week Daily fluctuations in traffic are somewhat predictable. Exceptions include unusual proximity to factories, schools, event centers, or Amazon warehouses. And because “flattening the curve” is no longer a traffic engineering...
It May Take Longer Before It Gets Faster As an Indiana traffic engineer, we study traffic problems all throughout…wait for it… Indiana. And we have come to understand that each community has a different definition of what they consider a traffic “problem.”...
Did Grampa Care About ‘Air Traffic’ Congestion? When you hear the word, “traffic,” what emotions are emoted? Do you think of only car traffic? Or air traffic? We better start including space traffic… Last July, three rockets from three different countries launched...
