Traffic jams seem to appear out of nowhere and sometimes for no good reason other than to frustrate you. If you've ever wanted to see just how easy it is for a jam to get started, take a look at ...

Artificial intelligence, if carefully designed, could significantly reduce emergency vehicle delays in congested cities ...

Via Brad Plumer: a traffic jam in in a bottle. To me, it’s pretty remarkable how closely the real-world experiment above matches up with this java-based computer traffic simulator. Warning: if you ...

A small-scale computer simulation has reduced gridlock in central Jilin City, China, but it’s no magic bullet. NTT Data conducted the simulation of traffic conditions in Jilin using an x86 server. It ...

The image of a backed-up highway leading away from the scene of a natural disaster may soon be history, if researcher Yi-Chang Chiu and his colleagues at the University of Arizona have their way. They ...

While nearly 600 traffic safety advocates and law enforcement officers convene in Duluth this week, State Patrol troopers were sharpening their decision-making skills Wednesday in a driving simulator.