When emergency vehicles are on their way to help people, the last thing they want to have to do is negotiate traffic at intersections. So Ford of Europe is helping to develop smarter traffic lights ...
If you're comfortable with the present green, amber, and red traffic lights, be prepared to get uncomfortable. New research suggests that adding a white light will speed up traffic and improve safety ...
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Emergencies don’t choose a time to happen. When they strike, swift movement by emergency vehicles like fire engines, ambulances, and ...
Traffic lights have been with us since 1868, when the first gas-powered set was switched on in London. These lights used a semaphore system similar to those used by the railways of the day and ...
The concept of the traffic light actually dates all the way back to the 1860s, where gas-lit signals were placed on the posh streets that lined the Houses of Parliament in London. Of course, back then ...
Each time a driver in Seattle meets a red light, they wait about 20 seconds on average before it turns green again, according to vehicle and smartphone data collected by analytics company Inrix. The ...
Have you ever wondered how traffic lights know when to give you a signal? Reader Nick Shepard asked Bee Curious, a community-driven series in which The Sacramento Bee’s service journalism team answers ...
MATT REGINA GOOD MORNING. WELL, INTERSECTIONS LIKE QUEEN AND ORANGE BEHIND ME HAVE A LOT OF PEDESTRIANS AND VEHICLES GOING BY THEM EVERY DAY. AS YOU CAN SEE, IT’S PRETTY BUSY BEHIND ME AND WITH THESE ...