Showing posts with label traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traffic. Show all posts
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Walk free in NYC, where jaywalking is no longer a crime

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In NYC jaywalking is no longer a crime, or at least it won't be at the end of January, if I read the story correctly.  But I'm guess...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

Roundabouts

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  A straight line isn't always the safest path between two points. The Washington Post has the story: Roundabouts are (slowly!) eating t...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Motorcycles as donorcycles

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 Here's an article from JAMA Internal Medicine , noting that motorcycle rallies produce an increase in organ transplants. Organ Donation...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Take a break: avoiding congestion in ant colonies and elsewhere

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A recent paper in Science is introduced by the NY Times under this headline: The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness Here's the pa...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Modern congestion pricing, by Cramton, Geddes and Ockenfels

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Here's a short paper in the July 31 Nature: Set road charges in real time to ease traffic Track vehicles to link tolls with demand an...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Too many traffic jams: an interview with Stanford's Mike Ostrovsky (and a paper by Ostrovsky and Schwarz)

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Mike Ostrovsky at Stanford GSB is interviewed on technology and traffic: An End to Traffic Jams? It Might Not Be a Dream And here's...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

London crossing signs and diversity in marriages

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Walking from HM Treasury to LSE, a quarter turn around Trafalger Square shows that British traffic wardens have a relaxed view of moder...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Rules of the road for cars and bikes

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In many places where cars and bikes share a road, they customarily (if not legally) follow different rules. In England, a trial program will...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Coming of Road Rage in Samoa

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Unless the government backs down, Samoa will change from driving on the right to driving on the left (British Commonwealth style) on Septem...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Behavioral game theory on the MA Turnpike

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A recent story in the Boston Globe sounds like a behavioral economics seminar on transaction costs: why are a third of the tolls on the Mass...
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Monday, February 9, 2009

Market for electric cars

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Before there's a very big market for all-electric cars, there would have to be a way to take long trips in them. For gas-powered cars, t...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

New Zealand traffic rules

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Traffic rules are designed to avoid coordination failures. In much of the world, driving is on the right. New Zealand is one of the island n...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Congestion fees: "Lexus lanes" considered in UK

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The Telegraph reports that British traffic authorities are considering allowing motorists driving alone to pay to be allowed to drive in les...