Unusually dry, warm and windy weather helped trigger a rash of wildfires across the region Monday, causing traffic and transit problems, consuming hundreds of acres of forest in South Jersey and forcing evacuations on Long Island.
We just talked -- Governor Schwarzenegger and Mayor Villaraigosa -- here in Los Angeles, for example, there is an enormous opportunity to deal with traffic and transit and transportation -- (applause) -- in a way that will relieve congestion, make this economy more efficient, more productive.
Provides real-time traffic, public transit and flight info, will also show you places of interest as you walk down the street.
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Even when the Canadian city's broad avenues are filled with traffic, Calgary Transit's buses run nearly as fast as they do when the roads are empty.
Smarter traffic systems can help traffic and public transit systems flow more smoothly, anticipate congestion and improve it in advance, reduce emissions and increase the capacity of infrastructure.
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In the lower left is a button that brings up your current location, and in the lower right is a tiny icon that lets you switch to satellite view, to see public transit and traffic information, or to launch the separate Google Earth app.
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New York's culture of walking and mass transit created foot traffic to make the business model work.
Sick of crawling to work through endless traffic or relying on slow mass transit?
And it's apparently because policing especially in Guinea-Bissau, which is the weakest link, is so poor that these Latin American, South American drug cartels are using this region as a major transit hub to especially traffic cocaine as the drug of choice, and that's on to Europe.
In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.
Relieving traffic congestion reduces the appeal of public transit and fuels the growth of suburban sprawl.
To begin with, the transit mall was scrapped and traffic was re-introduced in 1996.
The most economical and effective congestion solutions involve traditional road building and transit use, combined with traffic management strategies such as signal coordination and rapid crash removal, and demand management strategies like telecommuting and flexible work hours.
Sao Paolo is investing heavily in mass transit to relieve its choking traffic but meanwhile the population continues to grow and its citizens continue to march up the economic ladder to the level where they can buy cars.
Dubai's rapid-transit authority says it could cut traffic by 17%, and slash losses due to delays.
Last week, the Texas Transportation Institute released its annual Urban Mobility Report, a collection of terrifying traffic stats that arrive on a beeline to transit beat reporters.
Additionally, the company is also working with the My City Way apps, which cover 40 cities in the US and that many abroad, offering traffic cameras, POIs, and even public transit info -- a little odd for a car company.
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The majority of maps features that matter are all here: traffic, turn-by-turn navigation, transit directions, walking directions, satellite view, street view, indoor photos, Zagat restaurant reviews, and a bit of integration with your Google profile.
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Elsewhere, the CEOs of eight major Nordic IT and telecoms companies recently signed an open letter warning that the new law could jeopardise Sweden's reputation as a leading IT nation and lead to foreign telecoms customers relocating their activities out of the country (Sweden is an important transit country for the majority of Internet traffic from Norway, Finland and Russia).
But while Reagan's stand against the air traffic controllers changed the direction of labor relations, the transit workers in New York actually ended up winning a pretty expensive deal the city probably could have gotten without the confrontation.
The effort has integrated several transportation subsystems to handle traffic management and monitoring, incident management and traveler information from one transit management information center.
He said police would no longer be needed by Sunday to oversee traffic at intersections where lights are out and that the return of mass transit will significantly improve quality of life for the city's residents.
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"The traffic lights can talk to cars, work out how long it's going to take to transit a road and then provide information back on what speed to travel to ensure that you pass through the traffic lights on green, " he said.
It has dozens of sub-products within it, from Google Transit (public transportation, e.g. subway, information and routing), Live Traffic, StreetView (and the incredible operation that makes that happen), Local search, image recognition technology for reading street and business signs, the list goes on and on.
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