The Olympic fleet
The traffic chaos in Athens is notorious. To avoid gridlock during the Olympic Games, the "Eye in the Sky" uses helicopters to record the traffic from the air. On the ground, some vehicles notify the system of their state of progress. Up-to-date information is available to everyone. --- Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for... view more... (2004-08-27)
Cars supply the latest traffic news
It's the same frustrating routine on the way to work every day: The radio announcer reports "stop-and-go traffic". And once again, detours are the only way to get to the office on time. Information generated by typical traffic reporting services, such as SMS-based systems, lag behind actual road conditions because they depend primarily... view more... (2003-05-22)
Experienced air traffic controllers work smarter, not harder, making up for normal mental aging
Older air traffic controllers can head off mid-air collisions at least as well as younger controllers, using experience to compensate for age-related declines in mental sharpness, a new study finds. The evidence that experience triumphs over the normal changes of aging could help to overturn myths about older workers that are contributing to the... view more... (2009-03-13)
EUREKA project doubles intermodal freight train capacity
EUREKA project E! 2388 LOGCHAIN MUSIC has doubled freight train capacity on the intermodal service Duisburg-Lübeck, which links Norway, Sweden and Finland to Germany and the rest of Europe, through the development of an intermodal conveyor belt. The project not only created this innovative rail production scheme, but has also increased... view more... (2004-10-06)
Safer skies for the flying public
University of Texas professor Constantine Caramanis and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on a air traffic decision-making system that rapidly adapts its flight recommendations without human input based on thousands of changing variables. view more (2008-09-04)
Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later
New research presents strong evidence that the "synergistic" effect of early-life exposure to both outdoor traffic-related pollution and indoor endotoxin causes more harm to developing lungs than one or the other exposure alone. view more (2009-11-24)
P2P traffic control
Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic accidents? That is the question answered in the affirmative by researchers in California, writing in the International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems. view more (2009-01-07)
Ants hold the key to traffic chaos
Drivers wishing to avoid traffic jams could learn from the behaviour of army ants, according to new research by biologists at the University of Bristol. view more (2003-01-29)
Research that stops the traffic
Research undertaken by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Katy Jones and Karen Larter, from the University of Dundee, together with two members of Tayside Police Road Safety Unit, Linda Wallace and Bill Carcary, and published today, Monday 17 December, in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, studied the effectiveness of road safety programmes using an... view more... (2001-12-06)
NIST releases new standard for semiconductor industry
A wide range of optical electronic devices, from laser disk players to traffic lights, may be improved in the future thanks to a small piece of semiconductor, about the size of a button, coated with aluminum, gallium, and arsenic (AlGaAs). view more (2006-10-13)
Tiny particles may pose threat to liver cells, say scientists
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are to study the effects of nanoparticles on the liver. In a UK first, the scientists will assess whether nanoparticles -already found in pollution from traffic exhaust, but also used in making household goods such as paint, sunblock, food, cosmetics and clothes- can cause damage to the cells of the liver. view more (2006-04-05)
Mobile laboratory "sniffs" traffic pollutants
A new mobile laboratory makes it possible to study traffic pollutants in actual traffic conditions. The mobile laboratory, which can be used to measure exhaust gases both on roads and in tunnels as well as in underground sites, can shed new light on the amount and size distribution of exhaust gases. Fine particles in exhaust gasses are being... view more... (2003-06-02)
Delft University of Technology research might prevent asphalt damage
Repairing asphalt damage caused by water infiltration costs a great deal of money and produces extra traffic delays. view more (2007-06-06)
ESA is helping to make road transport more effective
Space is the usual business of a space agency, so it may come as a surprise that the European Space Agency (ESA) is giving some attention to road transport. The agency is designing and building the satellites that will make up the space segment of Galileo, Europe`s own global satellite navigation system. When Galileo becomes fully operational in... view more... (2002-10-02)
£1.6m project to monitor London air pollution begins
A four-year, £1.6 million research project that aims to answer fundamental questions about city traffic and air pollution has begun in Central London. The project will examine the best ways of making localised pollution hot spots less unpleasant and unhealthy, and attempt to discover the pollution differences between road zones where traffic... view more... (2002-04-29)
Exhaust fumes boost asthma risk in genetically susceptible children
Exhaust fumes heighten the risk of asthma in children who are already genetically susceptible to respiratory disease, indicates research published ahead of print in the journal Thorax. view more (2007-08-21)
Computer vision for the blind
The white cane used by the blind as a travel aid may be universal, but it is not always adequate when it comes to pedestrian crossings. Although some crossings make a sound when it is safe to cross, many do not, and it is at these crossings that the blind need to know when the green man is showing. Adaptations of the white cane have been made,... view more... (2002-08-15)
Research gives new meaning to 'green' cross code
Pedestrians could reduce the amount of traffic pollution they breathe in simply by crossing the street, according to the latest research from the University of Leeds. view more (2009-10-05)
Young drivers a time-bomb on Swedish roads
During the first half of the year, 179 people died on Swedish roads. This has been shown by compilations carried out by the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) for the Swedish government. On the basis of the facts compiled by these researchers, the government and relevant authorities will be putting forward a package of... view more... (2002-08-28)
USC study finds big air pollution impacts on local communities
Heavy traffic corridors in the cities of Long Beach and Riverside are responsible for a significant proportion of preventable childhood asthma, and the true impact of air pollution and ship emissions on the disease has likely been underestimated, according to researchers at the University of Southern California (USC). view more (2009-11-05)
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