Can interactive technology ease urban traffic jams?
Researchers suggest tech as alternative to building new roadsCredit: University of Houston Traffic congestion is a serious problem in the ...
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A spreadable interlayer could make solid state batteries more stable
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at ...
Bike commuting accelerated when bike-share systems rolled into town
Credit: Jackson Holtz/U. of Washington In the past couple of years, if you lived in a major, or even mid-sized ...
Fossil fuel-free jet propulsion with air plasmas
A prototype design of a plasma jet thruster can generate thrusting pressures on the same magnitude a commercial jet engine ...
Civil engineering Professor Sharon Di wins NSF CAREER Award
Using optimization, game theory, and data analytics, Di will model a framework to improve transportation ecosystems of the futureCredit: Jeffrey ...
Ending the daily work commute may not cut energy usage as much as one might hope
Credit: University of Sussex A mass move to working-from-home accelerated by the Coronavirus pandemic might not be as beneficial to ...
New study study to look at social media’s impact on consumer behavior when red tide strikes
Credit: UCF, Rosen College of Hospitality The University of Central Florida is one of two universities selected to study the ...
Interdisciplinary UTA team developing transportation models for a futuristic Texas
The future of Texas transportationCredit: UT Arlington A civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington is leading ...
54.8% of COVID-19 cases imported to Brazil by March 5 came from Italy
In contrast with China and other countries where the disease spread slowly, in Brazil more than 300 people started the ...
Representation of driving behavior as a statistical model
To accurately measure the effectiveness of traffic safety management technologyCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview: ...
NYU researchers rush to capture human interactions with surfaces likely to carry COVID-19
Team from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and School of Global Health will share information gathered from New York City ...
UA engineers collaborate on $3.5M DOE traffic-flow project
Researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Arizona, among other institutions, plan to move automated vehicles out of the ...
Tunnel fire safety
With only minutes to respond, fire education really countsCredit: Pixabay/wal_172619 Global risk management experts are calling for fire education initiatives ...
Nobody at home: A great increase in out-of-home rates over 28 years in Kumamoto, Japan
New insights from novel use of travel survey dataCredit: Associate Professor Takuya Maruyama Delivery services have increased rapidly with the ...