There is a cost to this kind of traffic congestion.
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Forbes said traffic congestion would likely be a commonality, too.
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Housing and traffic congestion are the two biggest pain points.
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Traffic congestion can never be "solved" unless a city shrinks.
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Take the blight of urban traffic congestion as an example.
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Underscoring these political battles is rising traffic congestion in cities.
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The roads are a mess and traffic congestion is getting worse.
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Governments are right to worry about ride-hailing's impact on traffic congestion.
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The diagnosis is heart disease, or, as it's also known, traffic congestion.
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The measures will improve utilization rates, driver compensation, and reduce traffic congestion.
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INRIX estimated traffic congestion costs the average American driver $2628,28500 per year.
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Thrun's company sees personalized air transportation as the solution to traffic congestion.
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Wednesday is expected to be the day with the most traffic congestion.
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Instead, she directed her issues on jobs, education and northern Virginia's traffic congestion.
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Construct tunnels under Los Angeles to alleviate traffic congestion with The Boring Company.
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This is more than an annoyance that causes bumpy rides and traffic congestion.
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They said the growth of ride-hailing apps has also worsened traffic congestion.
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Building more tunnels is just not a good way to alleviate traffic congestion.
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"Traffic congestion would improve due to increased passenger areal density," he wrote then.
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Uber and Lyft have weathered criticism about pollution and traffic congestion for years.
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But the fees later proved effective in reducing traffic, congestion and air pollution.
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" They added that too many of the ride-hailing vehicles "have impacted traffic congestion.
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To be sure, Uber has weathered criticism about pollution and traffic congestion for years.
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Like other ride-hailing apps's carpool options, it's an attempt to reduce traffic congestion.
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Smart cities could solve traffic congestion by getting real-time data and automating flow.
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And the emerging consensus among experts is that ride-hailing is worsening traffic congestion.
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But what happens to traffic congestion and travel times if you just abolish them?
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For example, states can get funding to help mitigate traffic congestion in urban areas.
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An early example is Boston's data-sharing partnership with Waze on reducing traffic congestion.
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The feature launched in 2017 and helps users work around India's heavy traffic congestion.
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Bay Area traffic congestion was the No. 2 most-mentioned problem and homelessness followed.
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Seven were Japanese experts in Dhaka to help improve the city's chronic traffic congestion.
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" The images were in a chapter entitled "Traffic Congestion is Not an Environmental Problem.
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Meanwhile, sustainable cities have cleaner air, less traffic congestion and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
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AIpark draws data from video cameras installed on the streets to mitigate traffic congestion.
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He recommended an improvement in telecommunication technology as a solution to alleviate traffic congestion.
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These relationships keep citizens safe, promote faster emergency response and help alleviate traffic congestion.
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Similarly, traffic congestion and carbon emissions are an issue in Africa's most populous country, Nigeria.
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But Lagos's police demolished his stall as part of a plan to reduce traffic congestion.
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Earlier this year, San Francisco ranked fifth in the world for the worst traffic congestion.
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But high housing prices and increasing traffic congestion have discouraged some workers from relocating there.
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The West Gate Tunnel Project is a government initiative to relieve traffic congestion in Melbourne.
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In 2014, Cincinnatians spent an additional 60 hours behind the wheel because of traffic congestion.
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Maybe reducing traffic congestion calls for reducing roadway demand as much as adding roadway supply.
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A graduate of Nihon University, he mostly worked on traffic congestion projects in Southeast Asia.
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Moments later, Elon Musk's vision for how to beat traffic congestion began to take shape.
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The "gridlock alert days," with road closures and traffic congestion, will continue through Oct. 21959.
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In doing so, they are also solving the problem of traffic congestion in large cities.
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To be sure, Uber and Lyft have weathered criticism about pollution and traffic congestion for years.
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"People love convenience, but they don't like truck traffic, congestion and air pollution," Mr. Rodrigue said.
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Supporters site traffic congestion and the daily hassle of getting around as enough of a motivation.
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Aggregate data that does help our urban planning side, and helping to fight the traffic congestion.
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Muscat has promised to cut taxes and raise pensions, tackle traffic congestion, and legalize gay marriage.
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Hum Rider is that vehicular reinvention and, perhaps, the answer to all your traffic congestion frustration.
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If we could return to the traffic congestion levels of 1970, that would be good enough.
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"Traffic congestion in metro Manila is horrible, its roads and bridges are crumbling," Mr. Diokno said.
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Austin has some serious traffic congestion — the worst in Texas, according to a 2018 TomTom report.
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City officials are also considering traffic congestion fees based on driving radius and number of trips.
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One even accounts for the effect horse-drawn carriages around Central Park have on traffic congestion.
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Photo: AIpark AIpark draws data from video cameras installed on the streets to mitigate traffic congestion.
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The demographic pressure in cities is causing more traffic congestion and impacting people's quality of life.
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But the slew of ride-sharing cars frazzled city officials and contributed to traffic congestion citywide.
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Traffic congestion is prompting people to turn to two wheels, giving Bounce and others a boost.
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But that success has also brought growing pains: Homelessness, housing prices and traffic congestion have soared.
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Meanwhile, traffic congestion soared in cities, much of it attributable to the popularity of ride-hailing.
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Autonomous cars will not only help reduce car crashes, they will also likely dramatically reduce traffic congestion.
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TomTom, a maker of satellite-navigation devices, and INRIX, a data company, rank cities by traffic congestion.
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Inrix and AAA predicted drivers would experience the greatest amount of traffic congestion on Thursday and Friday.
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How do you do that when most cities already have density challenges, traffic congestion, pollution, social issues?
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" Why it matters: "The vehicle is intended to soar over traffic congestion, sharply reducing city travel times.
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Traffic congestion cost around A$16 billion to businesses and residents last year, according to official estimates.
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The program was created to alleviate traffic congestion by restricting the number of vehicles on the road.
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Although the accident was not directly related to traffic congestion, Mr. Rowe believed it was a factor.
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Finally, Grab plans to share data with local governments in order to tackle traffic congestion and pollution.
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Amazon also wants traffic congestion figures, lists of universities and statistics on the qualifications of local workers.
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The goal is to generate technology for urban challenges ranging from traffic congestion to local food cultivation.
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New road and rail projects, critical to ease traffic congestion, are expected to be put on hold.
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Such investments help create jobs, ease traffic congestion, reduce business transportation costs, and keep us globally competitive.
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China has promised to boost its railway freight capacity in order to ease traffic congestion and pollution.
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If only city officials acted this quickly and decisively to fix potholes and Austin's legendary traffic congestion.
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New road and rail projects, critical to ease traffic congestion, are expected to be put on hold.
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I think for traffic congestion, I think for automobile accident deaths, I think it's going to be revolutionary.
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In America alone, traffic congestion brings economic losses estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
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Musk founded The Boring Company, or TBC, in 244 after becoming frustrated with Los Angeles' infamous traffic congestion.
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Brodjonegoro put the annual economic loss due to traffic congestion in Jakarta at 100 trillion rupiah ($7.04 billion).
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He was hoping to have a meeting about the city's growing traffic congestion to which Apple contributes considerably.
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Singapore authorities are actively looking for solutions to the city-state's traffic congestion problems, given its limited landmass.
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One is the possibility of increasing road-use charges to reduce traffic congestion at specific places and times.
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Cost: $523 billion The Washington metro area suffers from some of the worst traffic congestion in the country.
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At one point, the king expressed concern through his secretary about traffic congestion and disorder at the scene.
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Others, like creating a fashion "district" in each city to limit traffic congestion and travel, are more conceptual.
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Mexico City International Airport is a 2011- to 252-minute drive, depending on the city's notorious traffic congestion.
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And roughly $6.8 billion of that expense was essentially wasted due to bad driving habits and traffic congestion.
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Bike sharing is appealing for cities looking for a cheap, quick fix for air pollution and growing traffic congestion.
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We will then reach the critical mass necessary to feel a true impact on traffic congestion and environmental sustainability.
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This has led to a glut of drivers that has outstripped demand, driving down wages and increasing traffic congestion.
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It's good that China is searching for outside-the-box ideas to tackle its notorious traffic congestion and pollution.
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However, some might be happy to know that Los Angeles traffic congestion actually went down last year by 2%.
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One source close to Foodpanda added that Jakarta's challenging traffic congestion and a lack of infrastructure have added complexities.
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Plans to ease traffic congestion are in the works, from bus lanes to rapid-transit corridors and commuter trains.
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This has led to a glut of drivers that has outstripped demand, driving down wages, and increasing traffic congestion.
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And rich and poor alike must endure traffic congestion that is now the fourth worst in the United States.
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It's the world's biggest autos market and is blighted by choking air pollution, traffic congestion and often erratic driving.
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In an ideal scenario, the TEB will ease China's traffic congestion, boost China's public transport system and reduce pollution.
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Rising prices push middle-class workers further and further from their jobs, leading to unhealthy commutes and traffic congestion.
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Those additions include the ability to report traffic congestion and accidents, and, most recently, support for auto-rickshaw travel.
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To ease traffic congestion, Essen built Germany's first bike highway, connecting with a 100-km (62-mile) regional network.
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"There is no doubt that we must finally address the undeniable, growing problem of traffic congestion," the governor said.
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The navigation and mapping company TomTom calculates a Global Traffic Congestion Index compiled from a mountain of GPS data.
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They advise the government on local issues like the provision of public facilities and services — garbage collection, traffic congestion.
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Surveys show that smaller cities have far less traffic congestion, making a trip to and from work that much faster.
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Tampa's unique traffic congestion issues and medium-sized downtown also helped it earn the U.S. DOT grant for connected vehicles.
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Traffic congestion, which is a $200 billion a year drain on our economy, is nothing more than a pricing problem.
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From Los Angeles to Beijing, cities are struggling to curb traffic congestion that drains resources and productivity, and worsens pollution.
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The funds are designed to help pay for solutions that ease traffic congestion and also improve driver and pedestrian safety.
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Last month Uber's CEO and Lyft's president both addressed the traffic congestion complaints at a technology conference in Aspen, Colorado.
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We believe major investments in America's infrastructure will alleviate traffic congestion and move goods to businesses and consumers more efficiently.
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Purnama's policies include new infrastructure to fix Jakarta's chronic traffic congestion, flood mitigation, better waste management and anti-corruption measures.
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In Boston, the analytics team is taking on tough and visible public policy challenges like addiction, homelessness and traffic congestion.
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Musk said last month the transportation company is nearing completion of its first underground tunnel, aimed at easing traffic congestion.
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The number of vehicle miles traveled in cars is rising, and traffic congestion is getting worse in many U.S. cities.
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The technology exists - Google Maps for example uses smartphone GPS location data to estimate traffic congestion and calculate journey times.
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Until the subways are improved, traffic congestion will remain, but if ride shares mean a slower commute, so be it.
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The technology exists - Google Maps for example uses smartphone GPS location data to estimate traffic congestion and calculate journey times.
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However, they are not as useful in urban areas due to traffic congestion and many residents' lack of private vehicles.
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That's how much traffic congestion has increased drive times in Bengalaru, India, the world's most traffic-choked city in 2019.
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Residents decried O'Brien's proposed project on the grounds of aesthetics, traffic congestion, protecting the school system and carcinogenic construction dust.
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Despite his trial, Purnama enjoys strong public support because of his efforts to ease Jakarta's chronic traffic congestion and flooding.
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Up is designed for a future filled with megacities, which Airbus envisions having a whole new level of traffic congestion issues.
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Supporters claimed the cap is necessary to examine the impact of app-based cars on worsening traffic congestion in the city.
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E-bikes are more sustainable than electric cars, and they will help clear up traffic congestion and make cities more livable.
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By the numbers: AAA predicts drivers will experience the greatest amount of traffic congestion during Thanksgiving week from Wednesday through Sunday.
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Still, the longer cities wait to act, the longer citizens will be stuck in a cycle of seemingly endless traffic congestion.
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Recently they advocated for American households to sell their second cars as a way to reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions.
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Denmark: Copenhagen's advanced network of bike lanes is inspiring other cities looking for ways to combat climate change and traffic congestion.
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Boeing believes the vehicles, more commonly referred to as air taxis or flying cars, will be a solution to traffic congestion.
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For a plan proposing to reduce traffic congestion in the city, these underwhelming numbers are unlikely to make a significant impact.
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The Permian Strategic Partnership aims to address labor and housing shortages, school overcrowding, healthcare and traffic congestion in the Permian Basin.
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Traffic congestion created by the ever-popular annual Chelsea Flower Show nearby made it difficult for visitors to reach the fair.
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Traffic congestion is an ongoing problem for Luxembourg, as private cars are the most used method of transportation in the country.
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But unrestricted development imposes large costs in the form of traffic congestion, pollution, and, as we've just seen, vulnerability to disaster.
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The city said it was trying to reduce traffic congestion, which has risen in the years since ride-hailing took off.
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It would help us meet environmental goals and reduce traffic congestion, and the revenue could be used to fund infrastructure spending.
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He is also the founder of The Boring Company, a tunnel-digging business aiming to solve the problem of traffic congestion.
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With the proper connections and data, the Internet of Things can solve traffic congestion issues and reduce noise, crime, and pollution.
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HONG KONG — Maybe a giant tram rolling over pesky cars clogging the streets wasn't the answer to China's traffic congestion woes.
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Uber and Lyft, the leaders of the transportation revolution, have admitted that ride-hailing is contributing to traffic congestion in cities.
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The balance is a bit different for transit systems, as extra travelers impose lower costs and charging less actually reduces traffic congestion.
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The government says it will give a boost to local economy, as well as shorten drivers' trip times and reduce traffic congestion.
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But since then, he's spoken about how he believes that tunnels could be a way to avoid traffic congestion in the future.
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Skylines simulates things like traffic congestion and mass transit lines incredibly well, which is fun to watch, and occasionally maddening as mayor.
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Background: Curbside management has become an issue, as ride-sharing has elevated accident risk and traffic congestion in pickup and dropoff zones.
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Instead of hailing taxis, passengers that use ride-sharing services for carpooling may lead to reduced traffic congestion, pollution, and fuel use.
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Co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green have written essays on the transition to autonomous vehicles and proposals for ending traffic congestion.
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Not every community wants a glassy high rise with hundreds of new tenants who could strain public transit and increase traffic congestion.
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"The ban is justified because of the combination of traffic congestion, disorderly behavior and crowded city center," it said in its ruling.
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Musk, who also runs Tesla and Space X, founded the Boring Company to eliminate traffic congestion through a network of underground tunnels.
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With a population of about 18 million, overcrowding is an everyday affair in Mumbai - from packed trains, traffic congestion and cramped housing.
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It has since launched in India and Indonesia, where motorbikes have become a popular mode of transportation do to chronic traffic congestion.
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In city after city, this has led to huge increases in traffic congestion, increased carbon emissions and the undermining of public transportation.
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An entire network of self-driving cars would optimize traffic congestion and pollution by reducing the number of cars on the road.
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Kate Brown (D) said earlier this month she would activate the Oregon Air and Army National Guard to help ease traffic congestion.
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Additionally, the project would utilize all-electric Japanese trains and technology that promise environmental benefits and reduced traffic congestion on I-45.
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He says the traffic congestion, air pollution and high housing costs that afflict big cities result from poor management rather than overpopulation.
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The area has easy access to major highways and is just far enough away from downtown Detroit to mostly avoid the traffic congestion.
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Experts have cautioned that traffic congestion on surface streets near Loop stations may be unavoidable and lead to congestion in the tunnel exits.
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Additionally, SVCIP's report found that the average Silicon Valley commuter lost 67 hours in traffic congestion in 2014, up 13.6 percent since 2010.
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Uber saw an opportunity to apply the feature at airports as traffic congestion and demand for app-based rides at these locations grew.
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The harder it was to drive, either in money or effort, the fewer people did it and the less traffic congestion there was.
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Such ideas are some way off fruition: for now the project's applications are limited to fairly modest services such as traffic-congestion updates.
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A Tesla ecosystem of smaller connected utility vehicles including busses would be able to provide convenience, increase road safety and reduce traffic congestion.
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"If you're working somewhere like Boston where traffic congestion is atrocious, then flex time should have real quality-of-life value," said Wheeler.
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Razing architectural gems, they erect mediocre apartment towers that contribute to traffic congestion and the isolation of the middle class behind high walls.
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DOT said the proposal will provide greater consistency in how states measure traffic congestion, which can benefit both commuters and the freight industry.
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In the short run, expanding housing near Google's headquarters may relieve traffic congestion by reducing the number of people commuting from far away.
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"There is no doubt that we must finally address the undeniable, growing problem of traffic congestion in Manhattan's central business district," he said.
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Of the 20 finalist cities, Indianapolis has the least traffic congestion and the lowest average home prices, according to the Chamber of Commerce.
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Other metrics — such as traffic congestion and passenger numbers — could also shed some clues on the full picture of China's return to work.
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To comply with new rules in New York aimed at reducing traffic congestion, Uber in September started limiting drivers' access to its app.
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Last November, for example, CNN posted the below video, showing traffic congestion snaking for miles in LA just before Thanksgiving weekend kicked off.
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This new set of bills is an attempt by the City Council to bring stability to a fragile market and reduce traffic congestion.
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This dependence on ride-hailing is having the adverse effect of increasing traffic congestion, which in turn makes bus service slower and more frustrating.
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However, an aging infrastructure, traffic congestion, pollution and housing shortages are magnified by a population density almost five times that of New York City.
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A separate study on D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare found that it contributed a modest but noticeable 2 to 3 percent reduction in traffic congestion.
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" On traffic congestion: "We have to focus on mass transportation ... if people can get there fast they will leave their own cars at home.
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According to Inrix's data, these are the top 10 US corridors for commercial returns, due to their high freight volumes but low traffic congestion.
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Traffic congestion is such a big problem that New York will be adopting congestion pricing from 2021 to manage traffic flow in the area.
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In 2000, Al Gore promoted a "livability agenda," promising to address traffic congestion and create more open space and public parks in affluent suburbia.
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The remote location offers more space for the project than the crowded capital, where the existing airport has been affected by heavy traffic congestion.
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The 703-page filing, submitted in 2014 but only granted last November, describes "dedicated network delivery systems" that avoid traffic congestion by going underground.
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Importantly, Uber and Lyft embrace these strategies to expand pooling services and gain relief from stifling traffic congestion, just like the rest of us.
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She campaigned on issues like traffic congestion, but she unseated Bob Marshall, the self-described "chief homophobe" who sponsored the state's transgender bathroom bill.
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The roads would also have to be wider to decrease traffic congestion, and there would also be a lot of trees, and grass, etc.
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He rejects the ideas of tech industry visionaries who say personal autonomous vehicles will soon be the solution to urban problems like traffic congestion.
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A year or two ago, that would have meant taking a taxi or an Uber, with all the traffic congestion and pollution that implies.
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Studies have shown that ride-hailing apps have contributed to increased traffic congestion, in San Francisco and in other metro areas where they're used.
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Traffic engineers put all the data into a traffic congestion model and try to figure out how long an evacuation is going to take.
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Johannesburg, with its hilly terrain, heavy traffic congestion, sometimes aggressive drivers and reputation for crime, is not an obvious choice for a cycle scheme.
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"The promises of DSRC include fewer motor vehicle fatalities, less traffic congestion and the resulting reduction in air pollution, and greater mobility," he wrote.
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Importantly for cities, they're also very environmentally friendly compared to making a journey in a car, and their impact on traffic congestion is minimal.
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While religion was an important factor during the election, most Jakarta residents are also concerned with issues such as chronic traffic congestion and regular flooding.
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The unusually colorful landscape has drawn so many visitors that the typically empty park is experiencing heavy traffic congestion and faulty cell service, authorities advised.
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The study looked at plenty of other stress-related factors, such as: density, green spaces, public transport, traffic congestion, perceptions of security, and sunshine hours.
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"But we want to help solve problems like traffic congestion and pollution, so [there are a number of cities] we believe could use our solution."
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According to a study released today, the City of Angels held the dubious distinction of ranking No. 1 for traffic congestion in the entire world.
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It also wants the cities that raise their hands to provide traffic congestion figures, crime data, statistics on local workers, and information about local universities.
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A city task force suggested remodeling the Times Square substation in October in recommendations addressing a variety of issues, including traffic congestion and pedestrian safety.
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Elon Musk's "imaginative" ideas to alleviate traffic congestion are worth taking seriously, said developer Richard LeFrak, co-chair of President Donald Trump's new infrastructure council.
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Chang also said the report mistakenly said he was escorted off Apple's campus in 2013 when he tried to approach the company about traffic congestion.
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While that has contributed to increased traffic congestion and rising pollution levels, the city is still recognized as one of the greenest in the country.
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Interstates 55 and 44 reopened on Friday, but many other roads remained closed in the St. Louis area, state officials said, causing extreme traffic congestion.
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In a press release announcing the pilot, Uber said the new service is aimed at cities in emerging markets where traffic congestion is particularly severe.
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We're going to see the Internet of Things bring efficiency to a lot of everyday problems we deal with, ranging from traffic congestion to pollution.
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The road in Tajikistan is just three miles long, but it will help clear traffic congestion on an important trading route near the capital, Dushanbe.
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But they might feel a little heartburn on the return trip home Saturday and Sunday, given the traffic congestion and dicey conditions in the forecast.
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The government has said more rail links are needed to reduce traffic congestion in Bangkok, which currently has three Skytrain lines and one underground line.
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Cleveland may have the country's lowest traffic congestion, but that doesn't mean you can't find yourself stuck on a Los Angeles freeway when business calls.
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Damning as it is, the researchers do point out that features like Uber Pool (which they refer to as "ridesplitting") could help reduce traffic congestion.
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"We can't keep adding lanes to highways," Phillips reiterated, noting that car sharing will play a role in traffic congestion in the future, as well.
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The work went on all night, and the city's extraordinary traffic congestion was continually being made worse by road-widening projects intended to relieve it.
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Uber's flying taxis are taking off, as the transportation upstart looks for new ways to shorten trips made long because of distance or traffic congestion.
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New York (CNN Business)Uber is suing New York City over its temporary cap on new vehicle licenses for ridehailing companies to address traffic congestion.
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A decade later, these companies are being blamed for rising traffic congestion, increased tailpipe emissions, and a growing wealth gap between the rich and poor.
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Rail transit has become key to addressing Guangzhou's increasing traffic congestion and to providing a reliable means of commuting for the city's 14 million residents.
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Photos had shown extreme traffic congestion on a key bridge leading to the airport, with travelers and airport staff forced to get out and walk.
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While gubernatorial contests are normally driven by state-centric concerns like traffic congestion or education, the race in Virginia has been dominated by outside events.
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The larger goal is to reduce traffic congestion and related pollution, but it creates a system where drivers may be plentiful but cars are scarce.
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Whereas Uber and Lyft have been blamed for increasing traffic congestion, Via is built on shared rides and wants single-occupancy vehicles off the road.
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However, a new Mumbai metro network nearly 150 kilometers long is opening up with the aim of boosting the city's rail capacity and reducing traffic congestion.
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Indonesian Minister of National Development Planning Bambang Brodjonegoro has put the annual economic loss due to traffic congestion in Jakarta at 100 trillion rupiah ($7.04 billion).
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It's called Coord, and it's a cloud-based platform created by Sidewalk Labs to help cities and mobility companies better manage traffic congestion and parking problems.
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In proposing the cap, the city said the influx of thousands of Uber vehicles had added to traffic congestion in Manhattan, an assertion the company contested.
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Renzi voiced disappointment on Monday at the results but cautioned against reading too much into local elections, where issues ranged from garbage collection to traffic congestion.
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Self-driving also has positive implications for reducing environmental damage, cutting gas and electric costs, creating land supply from repurposed parking lots and eliminating traffic congestion.
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They were in Dhaka studying ways to improve the city's traffic congestion, according the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the government aid organization that sponsored the project.
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Furthermore, within metropolitan areas, restrictions on new housing push workers away from the center, forcing them to engage in longer commutes and creating more traffic congestion.
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The opening scene shows traffic congestion in front of the family's house, the last scene an angry fight over a parking space in the same area.
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But for the people who live or work near them, they can also bring noise and traffic congestion and can become a sinkhole for public money.
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He liked the idea that a cap might ease traffic congestion, but he was concerned that residents in boroughs outside Manhattan would see an adverse impact.
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The plaza outside Dr. Hourizadeh's shop is the newest of 285 pedestrian plazas — slivers and slices here and there meant to reduce traffic congestion and pollution.
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Tens of billions of additional bicycle rides per year means fewer car trips and lower emissions, with spillover benefits for traffic congestion and urban air quality.
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The terminal was fully reopened to passengers but vehicle restrictions remained in place as police worked to clear traffic congestion around the facility, the airport said.
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Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has been hawking branded gear to raise money for his latest mission: tunneling beneath roads to one day alleviate traffic congestion.
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Shuttles will be available in affected areas and Metro officials will be working with local jurisdictions on ways to avoid traffic congestion caused by the repairs.
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Another advantage of my joyous rides to my far-flung work sites is that my motorcycle demonstrably reduces overall traffic congestion, which benefits all New Yorkers.
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And in Mexico City, which tops TomTom's Traffic Index, companies are estimated to have lost 16 billion pesos (about $813 million) in 2016 due to traffic congestion.
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But campaigners have argued that the U.K. government's decision to build the additional runway failed to address the impact on air quality, noise, and local traffic congestion.
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"When DNS traffic congestion occurs, legitimate retries can further contribute to traffic volume," Scott Hilton, the executive vice president of product at Dyn, wrote in Wednesday's post.
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Andrew Cuomo to come up with transit solutions, said traffic congestion is expected to cost the New York metro area $100 billion over the next five years.
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As it copes with cascading delays, traffic congestion, and declines in ridership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is seeking salvation from an unlikely source: the tech sector.
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Elon Musk's Boring Company, a project that plans to use futuristic underground pods to transport cars across long distances without traffic congestion, is starting to take shape.
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Smart cities that monitor vehicle traffic congestion, or driverless cars and trucks that will convey people and goods to their destination on time — these are very compelling.
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There is significant opportunity that comes with integration of autonomous vehicles into cities to help alleviate traffic congestion and serve people in more accessible and affordable ways.
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Delphi and nuTonomy have been testing automated vehicles in Singapore, where regulators announced plans on Monday to halt growth in its vehicle population to ease traffic congestion.
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Tech companies are more popular in noncoastal states than in their own backyards, where the industry's effect on housing prices and traffic congestion is more acutely felt.
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Perhaps she could even design a car-pooling app, to provide workers, particularly women, with safer and cheaper ways to travel while helping cut down traffic congestion.
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This set off a mad scramble over who would gain the dubious privilege of paying large subsidies in return for worsened traffic congestion and higher housing prices.
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Amnon Shashua is CEO and CTO of Mobileye, an Intel company launched in 1999 with focused on making our roads safer, reducing traffic congestion and saving lives.
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"We share the City of New York's vision of easing traffic congestion, reducing parking demand and promoting sustainable transportation options," said Katelyn Chesley, a spokeswoman for Zipcar.
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The Port Authority — which manages JFK, New Jersey's Newark International and New York City's LaGuardia — also warned of traffic congestion in and around those two travel hubs.
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Instead of creating first underground transport system to help cars circumnavigate traffic congestion, Musk is shifting his tunneling venture to be more like a mass transit system.
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That matters partially because of the region's traffic congestion, which earlier this year was named the third worst in the U.S. after New York and Los Angeles.
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The company sees a variety of possible applications developed from the data, from fleet management services and vehicle tracking to traffic congestion control, smart parking and driver coaching.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese imports of coal from key supplier Australia slipped in November from a year ago, customs data showed, hit by heavy traffic congestion in Australian ports.
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But the two tech firms have come under attack by many locals and city planners alike for increasing traffic congestion and making public-transport systems uneconomic to run.
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They have become an easy and affordable way for people to get around, and will further reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions as more riders start using them.
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On Thursday pollution was particularly bad in the historical part of Belgrade which suffers from chronic traffic congestion and in the outskirts - hit by smoke from burning fields.
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The wage rule was passed several months after the city council approved a new vehicle cap for Uber and Lyft in the hopes of reversing worsening traffic congestion.
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Yes, but: AVs are not likely to solve urban traffic congestion on their own, and they will still need more thorough testing and certification to earn consumer's trust.
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That's pretty mind-boggling, especially when you consider that part of the pitch of Uber and Lyft is an increase in efficiency and a reduction of traffic congestion.
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Johnson argues that these vehicles help to worsen traffic congestion, citing a report that found that more than a third of them were empty at any given time.
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Some traffic congestion, a strained Metro and a handful of logistical issues at the venue won't be enough to stop Web Summit from remaining in Lisbon until 2020.
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"People are talking about national issues," said Manjunath Munirathnappa, a voter in Bengaluru, who hoped lawmakers would resolve infrastructure woes, such as traffic congestion and inadequate water supply.
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The Boring Company hopes to reduce traffic congestion by transporting people in pods beneath roadways through tunnels with smaller diameters than traditional ones, at up to 160 mph.
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And, the movement toward cities during the past decades has resulted in denser urban centers, increasing traffic congestion and making the case for alternatives to traditional car ownership.
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Of course, even if tens of billions of dollars more were set aside for road improvements, that would not on its own guarantee that traffic congestion would ease.
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The city's traffic congestion has also been a major bone of contention, with Brodjonegoro saying traffic costs the national economy the equivalent of about $6.8 billion a year.
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Elon Musk, billionaire tech boss of Tesla and SpaceX, launched the tunneling venture The Boring Company to dig under Los Angeles and provide an alternative to traffic congestion.
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Furthermore, if Powered Scooter Share users replace trips they would otherwise have taken by automobile, they have the potential to reduce traffic congestion, parking demand, and carbon emissions.
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The gist is that while ride-hailing companies have contributed to the increase in traffic congestion in San Francisco, jobs and population growth also play a major role.
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"There are lots of people who work from home, and that has reduced the traffic and the traffic congestion," said Patrick Fung, chairman of the Clean Air Network.
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"It is expected that the Mombasa Gate Bridge will reduce the economic losses caused by traffic congestion and allow Mombasa to achieve its full economic potential," he said.
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The Japanese bank has also been following data on traffic congestion, passenger flows and new home sales in a bid to track the progress of China's work resumption.
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While the evacuation order for tourists doesn't go into effect until early Wednesday, county officials are encouraging people to leave as soon as possible to avoid traffic congestion.
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Ultimately, Boring Company aims to build a network of tunnels under several U.S. cities that would ferry cars and cargo on sleds, which should alleviate traffic congestion problems.
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What's happening: The impact of AVs on private car ownership remains speculative, but their arrival could coincide with increased traffic congestion, decreased vehicle production and improvements in mass transit.
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Barclays brokerage arm referred to a contract to manage London's traffic congestion charge and a mortgage management contract at Co-op Bank, flagged as problematic by Capita in September.
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One of the most admirable traits about Musk is always sets the most ambitious goals, from building underground tunnels to beat traffic congestion to connecting our brains to computers.
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The transport ministry said it was testing Manston airfield as a holding facility for lorries and traffic congestion on Kent roads in the event of disruption at the border.
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The package, opposed by major ride-hailing companies, is aimed at reducing traffic congestion and increasing driver paychecks in the wake of the explosive growth of for-hire vehicles.
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The expectation is that within a decade we will begin to see autonomous vehicles on the streets and a correlated reduction in accidents, traffic congestion and demand for parking.
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GALE A. BREWER New York To the Editor: Your editorial jumped the gun when it endorsed a State Assembly bill proposing traffic congestion toll pricing in New York City.
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The 3.5-km (2-mile) TransMiCable, launched in December, has not only more than halved journey times but is helping cut traffic congestion, air pollution and planet-warming emissions.
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"We applaud mayor Durkan's commitment to put Seattle at the forefront of U.S. cities taking bold steps to address climate change and traffic congestion," the spokesperson told The Hill.
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An estimated 86% of Austinites drive to work — on par with the national average — and they spend 25% more time in their cars than they would without traffic congestion.
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The Federal Highway Administration found that traffic congestion causes more than 243 million hours of delay each year in the trucking industry, at a cost of $7.8 billion annually.
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Self-driving here means a reduction in health-care costs; it also means that the car insurance industry changes completely, and that traffic congestion due to accidents severely drops.
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"New York City traffic congestion now ranks second worst among cities in the United States and third worst among cities in the world," a draft of the report says.
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Among other claims, it credits slavery for the dismal state of America's prison system, for suburban traffic congestion, for the prevalence of obesity and diabetes, even for capitalism itself.
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"The city's rapid growth has coincided with heightened PM2.5 levels, as the growing population adds to its notorious traffic congestion, and coal-based energy demand," the AirVisual report said.
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Many cities have begun smart transportation initiatives to optimize their public transportation routes, create safer roads, reduce infrastructure costs, and alleviate traffic congestion as more people move into cities.
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Each late and failed delivery costs retailers an average of $17.78, the survey found, and additional delivery attempts increase traffic congestion—though by how much is difficult to measure.
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All over America and around the world, municipal officials are considering transportation alternatives that move large numbers of people while cutting pollution — especially greenhouse gases — and easing traffic congestion.
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Speaking at an event hosted by software company Splunk, Obama hit on a number of areas where technology advancements can benefit society, including health care and even traffic congestion.
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Unfortunately, the mandate's rigidity makes it impossible for drivers to respond to unforeseeable events like slowdowns from traffic congestion, inclement weather, long loading and unloading times, and so forth.
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If you're serious about busting traffic, congestion pricing schemes like this one, coupled with functioning mass transit, smart land use, and opportunities to carpool, must be your city's best bet.
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Founded in 2010, Ridlr operates as a personal transport portal that allowed users buy tickets for public transport in 17 Indian cities and also monitor traffic congestion using IOT devices.
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Its large population combined with frequent traffic congestion has made it important to develop new modes of transport like UberBOAT, said Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in a statement.
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And the state has a poor record: the highest unemployment outsider the former-communist east, the most burglaries in Germany, chronic traffic congestion, high indebtedness and sub-par educational performance.
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The latest study, published last Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, underscores how Uber and Lyft are responsible for 40 percent of the increase in traffic congestion in San Francisco.
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Traffic congestion, housing capacity, law enforcement shortages — all are posing problems in a town whose 29,000 residents are increasingly agitated by oil royalties flowing to other parts of New Mexico.
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The DigitalGlobe press release called Uber "an innovator" and cited the company's co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick's TED Talk on the service's potential to cut pollution and traffic congestion.
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The city's lawsuit argued that Turo's users have added to airport traffic congestion and that its operation at the airport without paying fees gives it an unfair advantage against competitors.
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Since his re-election in 2013, Sukhumbhand has been criticized by political opponents and the ruling junta for failing to address longstanding problems in Bangkok including traffic congestion and flooding.
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Yes. It uses segments of trips you take that have been anonymized called probe data to determine things like "is this a valid route?" or to glean traffic congestion information.
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Our transportation infrastructure system requires dependable, long-term, and sustainable funding to improve efficiency of the system, reducing traffic congestion in our cities as well as modernizing regulation, and safety.
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Drivers will be able to ask the app to help navigate to a selected destination, and Waze will return routes optimized with crowdsourced information on traffic congestion, closures and accidents.
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Nearly half of the people who supported Measure M thought reducing traffic congestion was LA County's most important priority, and indeed the campaign for it claimed it would do so.
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The city's advanced bike lane network, which happens to be the fastest way to get around, is inspiring other cities looking for ways to combat climate change and traffic congestion.
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Westway's supporters, including the federal, state and local governments, said that the highway would actually help curb pollution by relieving traffic congestion, and that the fish study had been sound.
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Traffic congestion cost American drivers more than $295 billion in 21625, a new study finds, as a recovering economy and sustained low gas prices put more drivers on the roads.
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Six months later, however, the Trump administration has essentially pumped the brakes on some efforts to advance technology that could redefine how Americans travel, reduce traffic congestion and save lives.
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Vibrant cities require density, and if you have enough people per square mile to make a city hum, you also have enough people per square mile to cause horrendous traffic congestion.
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According to today's study, between 43 and 2016 traffic congestion in San Francisco increased by about 60 percent — and Uber and Lyft are responsible for more than half of that increase.
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More people on bikes translates to not only less traffic congestion but also more physical activity: in excess of 23,000 hours in Minneapolis just in 2012, according to the 2015 study.
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Along with Lyft, the company has been shown to exacerbate traffic congestion in a lot of major cities, undercutting its central argument that ride-sharing can help drive down vehicle ownership.
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A 2015 survey by GPS-based navigation app Waze found that Manila had the world's worst traffic congestion, partly due to a tripling of annual car sales from a decade ago.
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But as traffic congestion in cities worsens, and as concerns rise about about air pollution from gas-burning cars, cities have increasingly looked for solutions to decreasing reliance on automobile transportation.
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On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased a new idea for a fleet of self-driving buses that could solve problems with traffic congestion and mass transit in densely populated cities.
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The driverless taxis will follow optimal paths for picking up and dropping off passengers to reduce traffic congestion and moreover, they could be cheaper than Uber and regular taxis, MIT said.
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Eventually, even today's winners will be left to grapple with the side effects, like traffic congestion and expensive housing, while others will continue to struggle with too little growth and hope.
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It might be sharing their data for better service planning, taking an alternate route to help ease traffic congestion or charging electric batteries at times that are best for the grid.
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There are traffic congestion, no schools, and a lack of affordability as developers have capitalized on the area, churning out high-rise after high-rise of luxury, multi-million-dollar condos.
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Not only will the roads be safer, but we can reduce traffic congestion, use less fuel, cut down on harmful emissions and provide new mobility options for the disabled and elderly.
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Republicans and Democrats alike worry about traffic congestion, worsening subway service and the toll of opioid addiction, issues that Mr. Rose said he would take on more aggressively than Mr. Donovan.
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Uber and Lyft have weathered criticism about pollution and traffic congestion for years, but it's been difficult to get an exact gauge about how much ride-hailing contributes to daily emissions.
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The one-year freeze on new for-hire vehicle licenses was intended as a temporary restraint on the growth of ridehailing companies as the city explores ways of reducing traffic congestion.
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For many in Los Angeles — a city which, for all its many pleasures, is in no small part defined by traffic congestion — one outcome of this closely watched endeavor was disappointment.
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Even before the collapse of the interstate, the Braves expected traffic congestion on Friday as fans traveled to the ballpark for the first time and found their way to parking lots.
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"Most homeowners wouldn't even feel it," Glaeser says, pointing out further that encouraging homeownership typically means moving people from multifamily buildings to single-family homes, which increases traffic congestion and pollution.
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Under Hu's helm, the cloud arm struck a major deal with the government of Hangzhou, Alibaba's hometown in Eastern China, to ease traffic congestion using data analytics and cloud computing solutions.
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It may have been an attempt by property owners to cash in on the prestige of the Broadway name, or by the city to relieve traffic congestion on the original Broadway.
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What passes for good news in this domain is that traffic congestion seems to have plateaued in the Bay Area, according to John Goodwin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
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The report, weighing more than 14 pounds, exhaustively detailed the perks of Alphabet's vision, including streets without traffic congestion and air pollution, as well as inventive ways of dealing with harsh weather.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio has been a strong proponent of these measures against rideshare companies, which have rapidly expanded in New York and drawn criticism for traffic congestion issues in the city.
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In Australia alone, an excess of 3.37 billion Australian dollars ($2.6 billion) is lost annually, due to traffic congestion, in its busiest cities like Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, according to TomTom Telematics.
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Another recent study found that between 2010 and 2016, traffic congestion in San Francisco increased by about 60 percent — and Uber and Lyft are responsible for more than half of that increase.
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The large coach buses are a common sight on San Francisco Bay Area freeways but have also become a symbol of the tech industry's role in soaring housing costs and traffic congestion.
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In part, the goal of the programs is to cut down on traffic congestion and the resulting air pollution by adding a so-called "last mile" commuter transportation option in urban areas.
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"It's really about trying to provide a solution for cities that have pollution and traffic congestion," said Bohnert, adding that Mobike is already looking at expansion opportunities in the U.S. and Europe.
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"One officer was approached by a male from a tour van caught up in the traffic congestion, claiming to be part of Drake's entourage," Police Inspector Phil Spurgeon reportedly told the publication.
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"This method could help the city reduce the number of vehicle miles traveled on San Francisco streets, which helps reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions," the SFMTA said in its decision.
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Officials with the transportation agency had warned that a shutdown would have sent tens of thousands of rail passengers onto buses and roads, causing major traffic congestion and delays in the region.
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Fewer motorists on the road would reduce traffic congestion, fossil fuel pollution, and stress on transportation infrastructure, all of which take a toll on the public health, economics, and environment of communities.
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In London, Singapore and Stockholm the fees were met with skepticism and outrage by commuters and civic and business leaders, though they later proved effective in reducing traffic, congestion and air pollution.
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Today, cyclists draw a special kind of vitriol from drivers in America's car capital, where traffic congestion is increasingly intolerable as the region's population grows by an estimated 211,2000 people a year.
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It created a vast, gleaming new campus in a once derelict corner of the city, but also raised deep concerns about housing costs, traffic congestion and potential over-dependence on one corporation.
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A friend posts an image from Google Maps of traffic congestion in the Bay, the highways usually a nightmarish red at rush hour and not much better the rest of the time.
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The problem is due in part to traffic congestion, and the mayor's ability to control the flow of traffic gives him two powerful tools: dedicated bus lanes and priority at traffic signals.
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That means you can check progress on a large construction project from an overall perspective, monitor emerging traffic congestion issues or check operational efficiency at a port from a top-down view.
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It's exciting to imagine transportation innovations that reduce traffic congestion, but I'm as excited to imagine an economic boom that redresses inequities by lifts up the people who are usually left behind.
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But economists say online shopping has also erased thousands of retail jobs, and critics point to other costs, including traffic congestion and environmental effects, so assessing the company's net impact is difficult.
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While the idea of spending that much on an eight-minute flight will be absurd to many people, it says something about traffic congestion in and around San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
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The only Southern city to rank within the top 25 cities with good transit systems is Houston, Texas, even though many large Southern cities like Dallas and Atlanta have traffic congestion problems.
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Emilio Frazzoli, nuTonomy co-founder and chief technology officer and MIT professor, said Singapore is particularly good city to test the technology due to its traffic congestion and investment in self driving cars.
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The demonstration vehicle offers modular functionality, meaning it an operate both on the ground and in the air, and Airbus thinks it's one potential answer to the growing problem of urban traffic congestion.
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Grab said it plans to work with its new investor "to create a more efficient transport network that will ease traffic congestion in Southeast Asia's megacities" and help its drivers increase their income.
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But air quality and traffic congestion have been key areas of policy concern for TfL and London's mayor, Sadiq Khan — so there's a clear underlying political pull to this Uber gear change too.
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Fitzpatrick, who is also the CEO of OVO Energy, an energy supply company based in Bristol, cites traffic congestion and air pollution among his motivations for sky-diving into the hype surrounding eVTOL.
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This would reward Jaguar car drivers with IOTA coins for actions such as enabling their vehicles to automatically report useful data, such as traffic congestion or potholes to navigation providers or local authorities.
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He sponsored the bill put forward by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to cap Uber's growth at 1 percent to study the effect on app-based ride-hailing on traffic congestion.
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New mobility services have the potential to complement public transit, but they could also lead to worsening traffic congestion, more vehicle accidents, additional air pollution and other unwelcome effects if not managed carefully.
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With a slight leap, if it comes to you and lifts you up in the air and drops you off somewhere else, you can reach the same economics – but without the [traffic] congestion.
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Both companies are also under increasing pressure to reduce the number of car trips in cities, after several studies showed that ride-hailing has led to increases in traffic congestion and carbon emissions.
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The bill also proposes a 225-month freeze on new ride-hail cars while the Commission conducts a study on how Uber, Lyft and their local competitors affect traffic congestion and livable wages.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A handful of Indian cities are gearing up to launch bike-sharing systems to ease traffic congestion and deadly air pollution, as urban populations surge and vehicles clog the streets.
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"The strategy will help increase traffic efficiency, productivity, reduce traffic congestion and pollution, and save millions of driving hours," Dubai Emir Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum said in an April 2016 Twitter post.
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The scooter boom has even attracted ride-hail giants like Uber and Lyft, which are looking to offset their contribution to rising traffic congestion by replacing short car rides with bike and scooter trips.
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G. Cutting a new street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, from Penn Station to 53rd Street, was one of many proposals for additional avenues and diagonals, all designed to relieve traffic congestion in Manhattan.
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The country has a heavily industrialized north, poorly maintained private furnaces, growing traffic congestion, widespread use of diesel fuel and years of neglectful spending on infrastructure for freight trains and public transportation, environmentalists say.
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Others in the air taxi or vertical take-off and landing aircraft space, including Volocopter, Lilium and Joby Aviation, have raised tens of millions to eliminate traffic congestion or, rather, to chauffer the rich.
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Road users lose on average an hour a day in traffic congestion, a hit to productivity that costs the economy about 1.5 percent of annual gross domestic product, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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Blumenberg and Ho contend that unless there's a coordinating layer that can communicate information between all automated vehicles — like say how air traffic control works in aviation — there will be traffic congestion and accidents.
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Hyperloop One estimates that around 4,000 vehicles travel every day between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with traffic congestion costing the economy $800 million in lost working ours, something it says a hyperloop could fix.
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Four people were in custody while the other six were being disentangled having locked themselves together across the five-lane slip road leading to the airport, causing traffic congestion at the Europe's busiest hub.
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Together, the two have envisioned SeaBubbles as a way for cities to reduce traffic congestion and help the environment by taking advantage of the area's waterways to move people around in fast water taxis.
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Traffic congestion in Indonesia's sprawling capital of 10 million consistently ranks among the world's worst, and it has long struggled to boost air quality, regularly rated as unsafe by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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With the ability to carry 1,200 passengers, the colossal bus is intended to help ease the country's traffic congestion, but several questions — like what happens to trucks too large to fit below it — remain.
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Ride share giants Uber and Lyft are responsible for more traffic congestion than they originally thought — but they're still well outpaced by private cars, according to a study that the two companies themselves commissioned.
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WASHINGTON — When surveillance cameras began popping up in the 1970s and '80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory floors and even baby cribs.
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Carol Reynolds, the North Durban area principal of Pam Golding Properties, said buyers are also drawn to Durban and the north coast by "excellent schools, very little traffic congestion" and proximity to the beach.
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While insurance rates vary significantly by location because of differences in traffic congestion, crime, weather and state regulations, about two-thirds of American drivers saw their premiums increase last year, The Zebra's report found.
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Between 2010 and 2016, traffic congestion in San Francisco increased by about 60 percent, and Uber and Lyft were responsible for more than half of that increase, according to a study published this year.
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Cities will become more efficient and safer with smart streetlights that reduce energy consumption, real-time traffic management that reduces traffic congestion and smart parking lots that can guide drivers to open parking spots.
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Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Alphabet, is heading to Los Angeles with its 3-D mapping technology to determine if it can navigate traffic congestion in the second-biggest U.S. city.
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Between 2010 and 2016, traffic congestion in San Francisco increased by about 60 percent — and Uber and Lyft were responsible for more than half of that increase, according to a study published this year.
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In February, the company spun out a new business called Coord, which is focused on helping cities and mobility companies better manage traffic congestion and parking problems on their streets through a cloud-based platform.
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Uber is piloting a new PIN feature at the Portland International Airport that will give riders a one-time six-digit numeric code in an effort to speed up pickup times and reduce traffic congestion.
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This technology, which is currently undergoing testing at Jaguar Land Rover, will allow the car to automatically report "useful" road conditions, like traffic congestion or potholes to entities such as navigation providers or local authorities.
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While much of the water in the Permian is transported for high fees by trucks, which also exacerbate traffic congestion around production sites, midstream companies build and use pipelines which energy producers pay to utilize.
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That could mean a movie studio's billboard mocking traffic congestion at the height of rush hour, a Dunkin' billboard changing from coffee in the morning to sandwiches at night, or sequential billboards telling a story.
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While much of the water, such as in the Permian basin of Texas and New Mexico, is transported by trucks - exacerbating traffic congestion around production sites - Goodnight uses pipelines which energy producers pay to utilize.
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If the GPS system in my car can navigate me to the quickest route through traffic congestion and fender benders, why can&apost my government use these same technologies to better anticipate these routine accidents?
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Measures aimed at raising $352 million in additional revenue for the budget included new traffic congestion taxes on certain ride shares, tax hikes on restaurant meals and parking, and a new tax on recreational marijuana.
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On Sunday, the Department of Finance said the government has approved six new big-ticket projects worth a combined 57.5 billion pesos, including construction of bridges intended to ease traffic congestion in the capital Manila.
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Measures aimed at raising $352 million in additional revenue for the budget included new traffic congestion taxes on certain ride shares, tax hikes on restaurant meals and parking, and a new tax on recreational marijuana.
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Uber doesn't really want to build flying cars, but it wants to take advantage of them to expand its service offerings and potentially do a bit more to solve the growing problem on city traffic congestion.
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"Overbroad alerting can cause public confusion, lead some to opt out of receiving alerts altogether, and, in many instances, complicate rescue efforts by unnecessarily causing traffic congestion and overloading call centers," said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
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The company would add far more value to its brand by eschewing incentives and instead working with the winner to address challenges like affordable housing and traffic congestion, which its new headquarters is likely to exacerbate.
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Beyond the affordable cost of living, the city also boasts many green spaces, plentiful parking, little traffic congestion, a stable job market and a solid set of restaurants and bars, according to the Tulsa Remote website.
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The big picture: Self-driving vehicles could help improve safety, reduce traffic congestion and improve access to transportation for many, but those benefits will come slowly and as part of a larger transportation system, Salesky said.
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Meanwhile, another application the company has been pioneering is a smart parking solution, solving the problem that sees increased traffic congestion as hapless drivers spend hours driving in a circle trying to find somewhere suitable to park.
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Jakarta is home to more than 10 million people, but around three times that many live in the surrounding towns, adding to severe traffic congestion that the government estimated costs $7 billion in economic losses each year.
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But given the alternatives are either slow walking, or ridesharing that can increase traffic congestion, create more carbon emissions and be quite expensive for short trips, many who give scooters a shot are finding them quite pleasant.
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The first vehicle is designed for hobbyists and recreational use, but the company still has its sights set on making flying cars a practical reality for broader use, including as a means to alleviate urban traffic congestion.
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In addition to expanding its service boundaries, Waze also announced a partnership with three major Bay Area organizations — the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the University of California-San Francisco, and Kaiser Permanente — to minimize parking and traffic congestion.
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The minister also blamed the Delhi city government for falling short of meeting its targets to rein in pollution from construction activities, open dumping or the burning of waste, including industrial waste, traffic congestion and road dust.
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Another flavor of ride-sharing steed which sprouted seemingly overnight to clutter up sidewalks — drawing rapid-fire ire from city regulators apparently far more forgiving of traffic congestion if it's delivered in the traditional, car-shaped capsule.
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They are being built to ease traffic congestion and connect the old parts of the city to newer suburbs, but they are also an eyesore - big, ugly, often plastered with political advertisements or billboards for Bollywood films.
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" Yet he added that "last night, the City broke from this tradition by slowing down the adoption of innovative mobility solutions that would lead to fewer cars on the road, less traffic congestion, and improved air quality.
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The modernization of Karachi's old downtown is one of a string of projects aimed at revitalizing Pakistan's largest city and economic powerhouse, which has long been plagued by traffic congestion, water and electricity shortages and rampant crime.
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To increase public transit use and in turn decrease traffic congestion, the company plans to build in the vicinity of the LA Metro Red Line and is currently choosing between three Red Line stations in the area.
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Poskitt said the vehicle sales record hit in 2017 is unlikely to be surpassed in the next few years, in part because of reduced demand in wealthy cities that are struggling with traffic congestion and increased pollution.
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"Traffic congestion and New York City's consistent inability to manage traffic flow and enforce existing traffic laws on its streets is killing our bus service and hurting bus rides," MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said in a statement.
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Danica Roem — a Democrat who was elected last month to the House of Delegates after campaigning on the issue of traffic congestion — said the tolls seen this week amounted to price gouging and called for a cap.
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According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation (MoLIT) 10-year national railroad network plan, the government will continue its investments to enhance connectivity between major cities, ease traffic congestion and strengthen the competitiveness of railroad logistics.
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The rideshare platform will pick up passengers at designated areas throughout San Francisco and route them in a way that will hopefully help avoid all the traffic congestion that is already starting to happen before the big game.
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Methodology: To understand the impact of traffic congestion at the street level instead of the household level, INRIX Research used the "bottleneck tool," which identified and evaluated every traffic jam within a customizable study area and time period.
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India is looking to reduce traffic congestion by building multi-lane roads and increasing the rate of national highway construction, the country's Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari said at a Nomura event on Monday.
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Through machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), self-driving cars take the driver out of the equation, potentially saving and improving lives by preventing accidents and relieving traffic congestion—but only if the IP process can keep pace.
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The city's growth, increased traffic congestion and noise — along with changing uses of downtown buildings that do not fit Oglethorpe's plan — prompted the National Park Service to downgrade the landmark district's condition to "threatened" from "satisfactory" last year.
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The City Council is considering five bills aimed primarily at reducing traffic congestion and increasing driver paychecks in the wake of explosive growth of for-hire vehicles and a rash of suicides among financially challenged yellow taxi drivers.
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Domestic passenger traffic in India has grown at more than 20 percent annually in the last few years despite a lack of infrastructure and air traffic congestion at some of its busiest airports such as Delhi and Mumbai.
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But even in its backyard of Silicon Valley, which is a mess of traffic congestion and housing prices that have attained levels even well-paid engineers can scarcely afford, there is a boom that, if anything, is accelerating.
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The city's growth, increased traffic congestion and noise — along with changing uses of downtown buildings that do not fit Oglethorpe's plan — prompted the National Park Service to downgrade the landmark district's condition to "threatened" from "satisfactory" last year.
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Less than two months after New York limited the number of cars Uber could have on the roads, the ride-hailing company said it is putting money and resources into a potential fix to the city's traffic congestion problem.
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The White House announced a smart cities initiative in 2015 that will invest more than $153 million in federal research to help local communities reduce traffic congestion, fight crime, manage the effects of climate change and improve city services.
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Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft have added to the worsening traffic congestion, cash-strapped cab drivers have protested in the streets, and multiple have taken their lives, citing the difficulty of making ends meet in the gig economy.
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The Tesla CEO responded to a tweet from Australian politician Jeremy Buckingham, who reached out to Musk about solving traffic congestion in Sydney with a tunnel possibly similar to the test unveiled by The Boring Company in Los Angeles.
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They can't exploit the positive externalities of their business, but they are held liable for the negative ones, like increasing traffic congestion or the creation of an underclass of freelancer drivers who are paid inadequately and lack safety nets.
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It can inform city planning, help ride-sharing users reach their destinations, guide travelers to great local spots, reassure parents their children are safely on their way home, remind people where they parked their car and relieve traffic congestion.
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"This news should have been embraced warmly by the market, however high frequency data such as pollution levels and traffic congestion gauges in Beijing do not at this stage corroborate the upbeat official message, keeping investors wary," he said.
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In Lahore, the political home of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, at least 400 pharmacists had gathered in front of the Punjab Province assembly building to protest a new provincial regulatory law, causing extensive traffic congestion that lasted for hours.
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They suffer from endemic housing scarcity, massive traffic congestion, and a profound small-c political conservatism that prevents them from making the kind of regulatory changes that would allow them to build the new housing and infrastructure they need.
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And as more evidence emerges about the harmful effects of ride-hailing on traffic congestion and public transportation in cities, it's an attempt by Uber to be seen as part of the solution rather than a source of the problem.
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"It's like a little airport in small cities [suddenly] become major hubs and so there's a mess [of traffic congestion] in the air," said Jonathan Kipnis, chair of UVA's Department of Neuroscience and one of the authors of the study.
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Nvidia's Metropolis AI smart cities platform sounds like a story arc for DC's superman comics, but it's actually a GPU-based intelligent monitoring tool that can enable things like easing traffic congestion, allocating city services and even finding lost individuals.
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Sidewalk Labs, the "smart city" company spun off from Google last year, unveiled a new tool Thursday it built to help cities better manage traffic congestion, parking problems, and ultimately prepare themselves for the expected onslaught of self-driving cars.
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These sensors are typically used by cities to monitor traffic internally, but the data is typically available to preselected companies that can prove to the city that the data will use used for good use — in this case reducing traffic congestion.
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"Over the next 24 hours you'll see a lot of repopulation plans coming out," he said, adding that authorities will "phase those repopulations in" so residents don't all attempt to return at once, causing traffic congestion and possibly safety hazards.
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Beginning with greater independence and enhanced mobility options for those who cannot or do not drive, to dramatically reduced road fatalities and declines in traffic congestion, the autonomous vehicle revolution promises many positive changes across the country and around the world.
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Their backers said they would lead efforts to reach a "zero-emission future" and "support fair user fees" such as congestion pricing, in which drivers are charged during rush hour in an effort to reduce traffic congestion at busy times.
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The second was to introduce a "cruising cap" to help fight traffic congestion in Manhattan below 96th street by placing a limit on how much time cars can drive without passengers and fining companies that fail to meet the cap.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's eastern Nanjing city is studying whether to restrict the issuance of vehicle license plates to reduce traffic congestion, according to an official report posted Monday, despite concerns it could contradict central government moves to boost car sales.
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Ed Bledsoe said he wasn't able to use his usual route to get home because of traffic congestion in the fire area, so he left his car and tried to make it home on foot but that, too, was not possible.
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She also sings in a heavy metal band, Cab Ride Home, which she said would be taking a hiatus while she focuses as a lawmaker on raising teacher pay, Medicaid expansion — and, a top issue in her suburban district, traffic congestion.
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Beijing has been moving what it calls "non-capital functions" out of the city in order to relieve traffic congestion and pressure on public services, with the Xiongan New Area announced last year as a major focus for regional development.
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That's one reason why just widening highways doesn't reduce human traffic congestion—there's an inherent conflict of interest between what benefits us personally and what benefits us collectively, so the result is 30 percent longer commute times, per another 2008 study.
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The drive follows the arrests last month of several Jakarta residents who sedated infants and used them to beg for money or hired them to motorists looking to evade minimum passenger norms designed to fight the city's notorious traffic congestion.
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But simultaneously, the lopsided distribution of these new jobs has ignited a backlash over affordability, displacement of low-income families and traffic congestion even in many of the communities, like San Francisco and Seattle, on the winning side of the equation.
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I expect bicycle, pedestrian, health and environmental advocates would be happy to work with electric rideable companies to achieve long-sought goals for safe bicycling that are likely to produce more bicycling, less traffic congestion, fewer carbon emissions and healthier people.
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"People are desperate to come into a city where they are not going to worry about power outages or water shortages or traffic congestion," said Ranee Nanji, co-chief executive officer at Tilisi Developments, which manages the 400-acre Tilisi site.
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Council members who may have been persuadable turned hostile when Amazon showed little interest in further conversation about how to mitigate the traffic congestion and rising housing costs that could have ensued when thousands of highly paid tech workers flooded Queens.
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But more recently, factors like climate change, worsening traffic congestion, and significant improvements in battery technology have spurred the popularity of "micromobility" devices: personal transporters and experimental scooters that are changing the way city-dwellers get from here to there.
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"The Stanford community is confronting the serious regional challenges of affordability, housing availability and traffic congestion and we're working to do our part to promote solutions that serve Stanford and our neighbors," Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said in a statement.
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, spoke at the TED conference in Vancouver last Friday, where he offered a first glimpse into his new project, The Boring Company, which aims to dig a network of underground tunnels to reduce traffic congestion.
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And looking at the impact Amazon's OG HQ has had on Seattle doesn't send a dazzling message: rent prices have spiked 40 percent in the last four years, and the city is one of the ten worst for traffic congestion in the country.
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The bike lanes are a crucial part of Mr. Johnson's so-called Streets Master Plan bill to help "break the car culture" and would usher in the kinds of changes that cities like London and Paris have made to fight traffic congestion.
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The City Council measure was aimed at reducing traffic congestion and increasing driver paychecks in the wake of the explosive growth of for-hire vehicles and a rash of suicides among New York's "Yellow Cab" drivers who have seen their incomes fall.
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The years Aptiv has spent mapping the streets and intersections of Las Vegas and collecting data on the city's notorious traffic congestion may explain why Aptiv, and not it's other self-driving subsidiary NuTonomy, is teaming up with Lyft for this demonstration.
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Of course, transportation experts question whether tunnels are really an answer to the quandary of traffic congestion and overcapacity, in addition to questioning Musk's claims that he can dig tunnels faster and at a fraction of the cost of traditional boring technology.
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials have been looking into wages at app-based ride-hailing companies as well as their effect on traffic congestion and price pressure on traditional yellow taxis, which are regulated and pay fees for medallions.
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Karl Fjellstrom of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, a New York outfit, says he looks for three things when assessing whether a city is suited for a rapid bus system: traffic congestion, demand and physical infrastructure (that is, wide roads).
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GrabBike has also helped to ease the transport problems that exist within Bangkok, where traffic congestion is rated as one of the worst in the world, by providing an efficient smartphone-based platform that allows passengers to connect to available motorcycle taxis.
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To find out, Rao did a deep dive into the world of ride hailing, looking at an app named Via—an alternative to Uber and Lyft—that pays its drivers more, strives to be environmentally friendly, and wants to decrease traffic congestion.
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"Citizens need to be aware they are part of the problem - but they can also be a part of the solution," said Chennai's Chief Resilience Officer Krishna Mohan Ramachandran, referring to challenges from waste management to traffic congestion and construction harming fragile ecosystems.
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Nauto Chief Executive Stefan Heck told Reuters the carmakers and insurer will integrate the technology into their test vehicles and use the aggregate and anonymized data - whether on driving habits, difficult intersections, or traffic congestion - to help develop their autonomous vehicle strategies.
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Along the way, Musk has attracted a ton of interest from his usual fans, as well as and the expected crowd of naysayers who think his idea of an underground tunnel network to cut down on traffic congestion is just a pipe dream.
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The Commission, which issued the pre-emptive warning on Thursday, wants to ensure a level playing field for all, even as it worries that crucial services such as healthcare and online learning for thousands of children may be slowed by traffic congestion.
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But the judge rejected the claim, finding acceptable "the commitment by the city to assure the necessary mitigation measures" through steps like revising no-standing regulations and traffic-light timing and providing drop-off space for taxis to reduce pollution-enhancing traffic congestion.
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"The Kiosk sensor platform will help address complex issues where real-time ground truth is needed: Understanding and measuring traffic congestion, identifying dangerous situations like gas leaks, monitoring air quality, and identifying quality of life issues like idling trucks," says one promotional flyer.
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News reports from across the country suggest that evidence of ride hailing causing traffic congestion in other cities has been provided by a series of reports produced by Bruce Schaller, a former policy director at the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission.
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The Commission, which issued the pre-emptive warning on Thursday, wants to ensure a level playing field for all, even as it worries that crucial services such as healthcare and online learning for thousands of children may be slowed by traffic congestion.
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As well as warning of hazards, Derq's system can help detect and predict traffic congestion and it is also working with the developers of autonomous vehicle fleets to demonstrate how it can improve safety and give passengers a smoother ride, says Aoude.
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"This news should have been embraced warmly by the market, however high frequency data such as pollution levels and traffic congestion gauges in Beijing do not at this stage corroborate the upbeat official message, keeping investors wary," he said in a note Wednesday.
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"Quality of living is determined by many factors, from access to public transport and traffic congestion levels, to the availability of housing and international schools, to a city's cultural scene," Mercer said in a statement, without specifying how Vienna keeps edging out Zurich.
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Atlanta is a city of cars, and one where traffic congestion has become an unpleasant and much discussed fact of life — a local TV station has a dedicated traffic reporter who calls himself Commuter Dude — as well as a potent political issue.
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For example, if a proposed shopping mall needs new access roads, the government could properly condition its approval of a building permit upon a payment by the developer to offset the costs of road construction needed to alleviate the expected traffic congestion.
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Andrew Cuomo is right: A traffic congestion pricing plan — in which drivers have to pay to get into the busiest parts of Manhattan — is the best way to pay for the bulk of urgently needed fixes for New York City's decrepit subway system.
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THOMAS V. CZARNOWSKI, NEW YORK To the Editor: A less expensive, easily implemented and more efficient system to reduce traffic congestion in Manhattan's business district could be a color coding system, inspired by the Don't Drive Today program used effectively in Mexico City.
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On Sunday, a directive released by the State Council, China's cabinet, and the Central Committee called on cities to stop permitting the construction of gated housing complexes and to gradually open existing ones to the public to ease traffic congestion and improve land use.
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Traffic congestion would improve due to increased passenger areal density by eliminating the center aisle and putting seats where there are currently entryways, and matching acceleration and braking to other vehicles, thus avoiding the inertial impedance to smooth traffic flow of traditional heavy buses.
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With the city's subways jammed to capacity and traffic congestion at an all-time high, Mayor Bill de Blasio is framing the ferry's expansion as a vital new transportation option for New Yorkers sick of slugging it out on the trains and on the streets.
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In a tweet, Musk said that the Boring Co., which is working to develop underground tunnel infrastructure to reduce traffic congestion, has "advanced ground penetrating radar & is pretty good at digging holes," and suggested the company's pumps and Tesla battery packs as a potential solution.
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But now that the initial public offering pipeline is filling up again with companies like Uber, Airbnb, Slack and Postmates, Mar believes these companies should pay more to help offset "negative impacts" of their growth, like housing affordability and traffic congestion, the Chronicle reports.
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But those who think they can transcend traffic in a flying taxi or through a futuristic, underground tunnel may be depressed to learn that neither plan is likely to do much to loosen the vise-like grip of traffic congestion on our nation's roadways.
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" On Comstock the site describes the freshman lawmaker as "an independent leader" and lists several issues that are top items on the minds of voters in the area: "Opioids, traffic congestion, Metro funding -- Barbara has been in the thick of today's public policy debates.
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The group seeks to address labor and housing shortages, overtaxed healthcare and traffic congestion caused in part by companies descending on the Permian Basin, the nation's largest oilfield, where they hope to pump billions of dollars' worth of oil and gas in coming decades, experts said.
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When a group of MIT scientists crunched data on Boston-area commuting patterns, they found that if 50 percent of drivers shifted over to ride-sharing, it would reduce traffic congestion by 37 percent and decrease the number of vehicles on the road by 19993 percent.
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The theory is quite simple: Uber, along with other ride-hailing startups, will decrease carbon emissions in cities where it operates by lessening people's reliance on personal automobiles, minimizing traffic congestion on roads, and eventually disincentivizing the perks of owning a vehicle in the first place.
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Municipal leaders in cities from Spokane to Seattle said trains carrying coal from mines in Montana and Wyoming, or oil from North Dakota, posed risks: air pollution caused by dust, traffic congestion caused by mile-long trains and the potential catastrophe of derailments in urban areas.
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"VTOL is another way to do that," said Holden, describing a whole new way to commute quickly and efficiently, and decrying increasing the traffic congestion such as that between San Francisco and nearby Oakland (it is awful) that makes it near impossible to move around urban areas.
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Israeli ISPs have reported an average increase of up to 30% in traffic congestion since the outbreak began, and many Israelis have taken to social media to complain of a slowdown in Internet speeds, prompting the telecoms regulator to ask Netflix to lower broadcasting bit rates.
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Israeli ISPs have reported an average increase of up to 30% in traffic congestion since the outbreak began, and many Israelis have taken to social media to complain of a slowdown in Internet speeds, prompting the telecoms regulator to ask Netflix to lower broadcasting bit rates.
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It incorporates ways to combat climate change with proposals like increasing the availability of charging stations and other fueling options for electric and zero-emissions vehicles, making roads safer for pedestrians and bicyclists and investing in zero-emission buses for public transit to reduce traffic congestion.
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The jury is still out on whether an electric vertical takeoff and landing-based air taxi system would make an appreciable contribution to a next-generation transportation system, or whether it would simply be an escape hatch for the super-rich to avoid street-level traffic congestion.
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The leaders of MoveNY have labored for years, pushing to build support for a specific system of congestion pricing in New York City that they hope would reduce traffic congestion in Manhattan's central business district while raising revenue that could be invested in mass transit options.
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From parts manufacturers to community dealer showrooms, a free trade environment and an open supply chain have kept the cost of automobiles down while giving the consumer access to safety and other technologies that save lives, reduce emissions, ease traffic congestion and improve quality of life.
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There's no reason to treat Uber and Lyft as exceptional in this regard — cities that have persistent traffic congestion issues should ameliorate the problem with congestion fees that allow buses, emergency vehicles, and people with urgent, time-sensitive driving needs to move smoothly through the city.
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Another study looked at the introduction of the E-ZPass electronic tolling system in New York City and found it "greatly reduced" traffic congestion around tolling plazas, resulting in reduced incidents of premature births and low birth weights for mothers who lived within 2 kilometers of the plaza.
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And here's where I dust off my town planning textbooks and scratch my head: Because it's not that the tunnel scheme itself is impossible (as Motherboard already wrote); it's that for a range of reasons, as planners understand, you can't just ease traffic congestion by building more roads.
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However, Intel's study offers a few interesting predictions for autonomous vehicles and how a combination of mobile connectivity, population density in cities, traffic congestion and subsequent regulation, and the rise of on-demand ride-hailing and car-sharing services will be the catalysts in this new economic era.
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"Even some in the business elite are intrigued by what he has promised, and the way he proposed to step down as president if he failed to solve crime, traffic, congestion," he said, but cautioned as well that when "moths fly closely into the fire" oftentimes, they get burned.
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She said investors need to understand a new business model is not the same as an enlightened one and other concerns include whether drivers are adequately screened, whether the service is increasing traffic congestion and air pollution, and whether it is cutting into or deliberately undercutting transit ridership.
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Instead, the location includes a large screen highlighting different ways (bike, subway and otherwise) to reach New York City landmarks, a ramp-and-marble model that illustrates the idea of traffic congestion and another display that lays out a number of future-of-transporation concepts, like self-repairing roads.
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Estonia has become the first country in the world to offer free public transport to all its residents, a move the Baltic state says will not only reduce air pollution and traffic congestion, but also foster commercial activity in its city centers, according to the World Economic Forum.
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But there's also no getting around the ugly externalities of app-based ride-hailing: hundreds of thousands of low-paid drivers at the mercy of an uncaring algorithm, women passengers subjected to sexual assault and rape, cities choked with traffic congestion, public transportation systems struggling to maintain ridership.
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" In the past, traffic congestion made a 14th Street address "one of the least desirable addresses in those desirable neighborhoods," he continued, but if the busway is extended beyond its 18-month pilot program, it is likely to "add value" and "be reflected in real estate prices over time.
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In some respects, it was only a matter of time before the incentives involved in storm chasing, such as the desire for close-up video footage of massive twisters, the scientific need to observe these storms as closely as possible, and the traffic congestion on big chase days, resulted in tragedy.
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Ford might be looking to put self-driving cars into service for on-demand taxi scenarios by 2021, but that's thinking small by Airbus standards – the aircraft manufacturer wants to make autonomous flying taxis a real thing for dense urban areas where traffic congestion is a real and growing problem.
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But the opportunity of building fast services that could mitigate current traffic congestion, while also reducing carbon emissions, is potentially massive, and so we are seeing a lot of activity and investment from many corners as companies hope their takes on solving that challenge are the ones to hit the mark.
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Because that will also cut two major arteries through the city, in an area where traffic congestion is already rage-inducing for Afghan drivers, the plans call for building a ring road on the northern side of the Wazir Akbar Khan hill to carry traffic around the new Green Zone.
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The report cited factors for the change, including an increase in traffic congestion, which dissuades drivers; greater interest in car-pooling and cycling, as well as a rise in bike infrastructure like new lanes; and a surge in the use of public transportation and ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft.
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Lost in the chorus of economic development boosters and the daily drip…drip…drip of surveys touting Atlanta as a favorite to land Amazon's second headquarters is a growing sentiment that the resulting income inequality, unaffordable housing and traffic congestion is not worth even the 22018,22 jobs "HQ2" would bring.
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" But it remains concerned about the rising numbers of private hire vehicles in London — noting that the number has increased from 59,000 in 2009/20123 to more than 95,000 now, and adding: "This has contributed to wider challenges for London such as growing traffic congestion, illegal parking and areas of poor air quality.
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Mobility is an area that has tremendous potential in terms of impact on people's lives, he said, and Uber is a company uniquely positioned to address those issues, by offer "mobility to people who wouldn't have had access to mobility before," and throughout efforts like UberPOOL, which have the potential to ease urban traffic congestion.
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Here's what he wrote today in response to the announcement:Here at the auto show I'm seeing great innovations in automotive engineering, but if we don't do something different, drivers in the future will not be zipping down our highways, but struggling in traffic congestion and clogging our skies with the greenhouse gas emissions congestion exacerbates.
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Smart cities can reduce resource consumption, using IoT devices to optimize the use of electricity and water; reduce traffic congestion and air pollution through smart coordination of traffic lights, parking availability, and public transportation; and harness the power of big data and ubiquitous IoT devices to enhance the efficiency and livability of the urban environment.
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It has begun boring and just completed the first segment of tunnel in LA. Along the way, Musk has attracted a ton of interest from his usual fans, as well as and the expected crowd of naysayers who think his idea of an underground tunnel network to cut down on traffic congestion is just a pipe dream.
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The study basically lays out two futures: the bad one where nobody plans and traffic congestion becomes unbearable and social inequalities get worse through lack of mobility, or the good one where cities plan for more than the immediate future to encourage mixed-use neighborhoods and towns with better transit options for everyone and fewer parking lots.
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From a parking lot in a sleepy, manufacturing-dominated suburb of Los Angeles, Elon Musk and his Boring Company on Tuesday night showed off what he believes is the best way to eliminate the scourge of traffic congestion: electric, autonomous vehicles bearing an extra set of wheels, shooting through thin tunnels at speeds up to 150 mph.
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"The $43 billion needed to rebuild and improve our transportation infrastructure is less than what we're wasting today on vehicle repairs due to poor road conditions, time lost to traffic congestion, and population and jobs going to neighboring states," Jim Reilly, a senior fellow at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Chicago region planning group, said in a statement.
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Roem's gender identity was not the focus of her campaign Roem, 33, a local journalist who began her physical transition four years ago, openly discussed her gender identity throughout the election but did not make it the cornerstone of her campaign, choosing instead to focus on local issues like jobs, education and northern Virginia's traffic congestion.
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Last year, the administration announced a new Smart Cities Initiative, investing over $160 million in federal research while leveraging more than 85033 new technology collaborations to help local communities tackle key challenges such as reducing traffic congestion, fighting crime, fostering economic growth, managing the effects of a changing climate and improving the delivery of city services.
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Chinese officials swear the system is intended to improve public safety and lessen traffic congestion but plenty of people have their doubts, per WSJ:"It's all happening in the backdrop of this pretty authoritarian government," said Ben Green, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society who is researching use of data and technology by city governments.
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One good example of how the map can help environmental scientists in the Bay Area is the ability to track higher pollution due to cars speeding up near the Bay Bridge to cross under or merge onto I-80, which is a freeway with frequent traffic congestion that goes beyond just rush hour and can sometimes even be affected on the weekends.
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And here's what we have to show for it: an underclass of gig workers, increased traffic congestion and urban pollution, the global suppression of labor standards, hollowed-out public transportation and taxi businesses across the world, and the instability that will come when Uber and WeWork collapse as SoftBank and other investors get tired of losing money from these creatively unprofitable businesses.
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Waze Carpool also has three new partners in its efforts to help address Bay Area traffic congestion, including the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and Kaiser Permanente, all of whom will now contribute to carpool routes that serve areas that include San Francisco hospital campuses where bus and other transit routes don't normally reach.
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From the crumbling bridges of California to the overflowing sewage drains of Houston and the rusting railroad tracks in the Northeast Corridor, decaying infrastructure is all around us, and the consequences are so familiar that we barely notice them—like urban traffic congestion, slow-moving trains, and flights that are often disrupted, thanks to an outdated air-traffic-control system.
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