Posts Tagged ‘Sep-2009’

Tired of getting stuck in traffic? So are a lot of people all over the world. Finally somebody decided to ask for help. A plea for solutions to the traffic jams we all see was sweetened with a check for $50,000. That is the prize in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Congestion Challenge, the first global competition of ideas for combating transportation congestion and blunting its impact on the economy and environment. The contest is a partnership between the Intelligent Transpo…

Traveling the I-95 Corridor, the main highway on the East Coast, is always a challenge. Stretching 1,917 miles from Florida to Maine, it serves some of the most populated urban areas in the U.S., including Miami, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston. The average daily traffic in the entire corridor is more than 72,000 vehicles, with maximum daily traffic reaching as high as 300,000 or more. Average daily truck traffic is more than 10,000, with maximum daily truck …

Pranksters in Austin, Texas, made headlines earlier this year when they reprogrammed construction signs to warn of an imminent zombie attack. But a North Carolina State University student did them one better: He created a roadside monster. Daydreaming in class one morning, student and street artist Joseph Carnevale got the idea to turn ordinary construction barrels into a giant creature. Under cover of night, he snuck three barrels from a site near campus back to his apartment, built the monst…