Arista also offers network monitoring software, LANZ, which watches networks and tracks sources of congestion in real-time.
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With traffic congestion at an all time high in major metropolitan areas, the AVIC-Z150BH and AVIC-X950BH enable users to see the latest traffic conditions with a built-in RDS-TMC traffic tuner.
In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will let drivers quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, and save time and fuel.
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And that was at a time when the congestion arising from development and population density of the area was nothing like what it is today.
The project is addressing the three cornerstone transportation issues of environment, safety and congestion while at the same time encouraging driver acceptance through the prospect of increased "driver comfort".
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Homeowners commute farther than renters, which causes congestion and makes getting to work more time-consuming and costly for everyone.
In addition, the driverless car would reduce wasted commute time and energy by relieving congestion and allowing cars to go faster, operate closer together and choose more effective routes.
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Congestion tolling saves motorists an enormous amount of time that would otherwise be spent stuck in traffic, thereby reducing stress, saving fuel, and making trip times much more predictable.
With 80 percent of whites living in suburbs and 80 percent of blacks and Hispanics living in inner cities (see PBS source), wait-time differences are fully explained by congestion by location not by race.
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Meanwhile, the safety technology to make crashes less likely and congestion less dangerous has been around for a long time.
Traffic congestion, though still bad, is for the first time not getting worse.
But parents have said the idea of a "turning triangle" near the school entrance has been considered for some time by the council to deal with existing congestion.
Police warned the 20, 000 attending the games to allow extra time for their journey because of the expected traffic congestion.
Rather, wi-fi enabled vehicles would be able to communicate vital real-time information with each other to help reduce traffic congestion and avoid accidents.
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Because when it comes to development, it's time to throw out old policies that encouraged sprawl and congestion, pollution, and ended up isolating our communities in the process.
Incoming dirty ships would have to transfer their cargo or be cleaned, which takes time, and cleaning the ships could create delays and port congestion.
For example, spreading the same number of journeys over a greater period of time through trading across may well bring the benefits of easing congestion at peak times, but roadside residents will not be grateful when traffic noise and vibration start earlier in the morning and continue through the night.
Road pricing, adjusted for place and time, can, by contrast, be fixed precisely to reduce congestion.
By comparison, the average North American motorist spends 19 percent more time than necessary getting to a given destination during times of peak congestion.
And according to people familiar with High Speed Two, its economics are rather flaccid: every pound invested in high-speed rail is predicted to generate only around two pounds' worth of benefit (measured in time savings, the extra journeys that will be facilitated, reduced congestion on roads and so on).
Do we really want something originally used for talking with people in real-time to alert those at our next meeting we are running late because of road congestion?
Nor do they seem to mind much that the same body photographs their car every time they visit central London on a working day to enforce the capital's congestion charge.
The information can be used to guide motorists around congestion using digital highway signs or on Web sites like Google Maps that show traffic conditions in real time.
As congestion builds on one street relative to another, it adjusts traffic-light cycles to give more green time to the congested lanes.
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