Weather, vehicle collisions, temperature, back-to-school weekend — making sense of every data point that influences traffic is a staggering task. That’s exactly what the Virginia Tech Transportation ...

Despite differences in individual politics and any number of other preferences, one thing many people agree on is how much they loathe getting stuck in traffic. Those that do share the sentiment with ...

If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason. Everybody's experienced it: a miserable backup on the ...

In 2007, mathematicians from the University of Exeter showed that the freeway traffic jams that appear to occur for no reason are actually the result of a "backward traveling wave" initiated when a ...

Network slowdowns could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a superfast new algorithm. The breakthrough offers a dramatically faster solution to a problem that has been plaguing computer scientists ...

Claire Tomlin: I started working on problems in air traffic control mainly because I was at Berkeley and this was an opportunity that came up and I could go and work at NASA, where they were at the ...