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SatNav traffic info comes to Dublin
Dublin, Ireland's horrendous traffic bottlenecks may be avoidable for some well-equipped drivers in 2010 More »
Parking meters overcharge with daylight savings
Electronic parking meters overcharge when they fall back two hours instead of one More »
Navigation indoors, even underground?
NavSat system won't work indoors? New cell phone technology may enable your phone to do the job, and with even more accuracy More »
Out-of-date GPS maps
Roads keep changing, so out-of-date maps are a serious problem for SatNav users. User-generated data (that means you!) is shaping up as the answer More »
Smarter driving – from IBM and TrafficMaster
IBM’s computing power and analytic savvy can boost TrafficMaster’s route planning and congestion prediction to new levels, and that's not all … More »
Traffic reports for iPhone
INRIX offers its Predictive traffic information service for free to iPhone users More »
Massive focus on transportation, energy and climate
More than 10,000 policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions expected at Washington meeting More »
Playing God in LA traffic
It's Oscar night in Los Angeles more than 800 limos need to reach the red carpets in order and on time, but city engineers managing L.A.'s traffic computers have a problem--hundreds of their colleagues are on a labor protest, and hindering their efforts More »
Mobile phones driving traffic info
Information from tracking mobile phones is powering TomTom's new "high definition" traffic navigation service More »
Transportation's backroom boys
Next week two major hotels near downtown Washington D.C. will be chock-full of the people who are behind transportation policies on everything from congestion road pricing (tolls) to bridge maintenance - more than 7,000 of them! More »
A heads up on 2008 cars and driving
On New year's day, 2008, Drivers.com took a quick scan of the landscape ahead for drivers, driving and automobiles More »
Danger in the streets
Nearly 9 out of 10 intersections studied have hazards that put children at risk as they walk to and from school. And drivers are a major problem. More »
Watch out for school kids
As children return to school, their excitement can cause them to forget proper safety rules. Drivers must slow down and remember that kids may dart out into the street near school zones, playgrounds, and bus stops. More »
Learn to walk again
Each year in the U.S. approximately 5,000 pedestrians die on the roads, and a new campaign is trying to go beyond the old messages to "wear white at night", by training drivers and pedestrians alike. More »
Cars still king on U.S. highways
Despite increasing traffic congestion, Americans still depend on the automobile for mobility, and there's no trend towards change. More »
Left lane driving: two wrongs don't make a right
Drivers who plod along in the left lane on North American highways cause just as much consternation as those who race up behind the plodders. More »
Driving on the wrong side
It's a shock to see another car coming at you on the "wrong" side of the road, but it's something tourists face in more than 60 countries. Drivers.com takes a look at why. More »
Towards a sociology of traffic
If we assume that motoring is a social activity and that streets are social arenas, then we must acknowledge the social conditions that impact driving, and the social roles and relationships that influence how we drive. More »
