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.”...
Exception: Ice Cream Shops Today’s column addresses, by far, the most asked question from my readers, “When do you plan to pay back all that money I loaned you?” On second thought, let’s move on to the second most asked question, “What are we going to do about all...
But Scientists Claim “No Room” on Periodic Table Why does this not surprise me? Granted, the recently discovered element, Traffic (Tr), has nothing to do with traffic, but one look at the periodic table and I think I see a few places where it could fit. But instead,...
And it Always has Been… What is normal traffic? How will we know when traffic is normal? Rush hour is starting to look familiar, but I can’t say I’ve missed it… As traffic engineers, we are constantly analyzing and predicting traffic conditions to recommend...
Is “Learnt” Even a Real Word? My uncle has a house-cleaning business. And like many of us, he’s been working from home. Let’s just say his house is shiny. Almost overnight road traffic melted away, trains stopped running, planes stopped flying, buses emptied, people...
