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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 »


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 »


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 »


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 »


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Out-of-date GPS maps

Roads keep changing, so out-of-date maps are a serious problem for SatNav users.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 »


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 »


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 »


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 »


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 »


Traffic and drivers - Other links:

UK national charity promoting responsible car use, vehicle choice, alternative fuels, car sharing, driving behavior


The homepage for this department of the University of Leeds, in the U.K.


U.S.-based nonprofit organization promotes transportation policies which relieve traffic congestion, improve air quality, make highway travel safer, and enhance economic productivity.


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