A traffic jam is the antithesis of throughput. Adaptive cruise for the win Now, there is great promise to preventing traffic waves by using adaptive cruise control, as Beaty points out on his website.

A once in a lifetime celestial happening has led to nightmarish traffic jams, as tens of thousands of people across the US clogged the highways during their return home.

But it did cause an almighty traffic jam. The West Side Highway was not a lightly used route. Each day, it carried around 70,000 vehicles up and down Manhattan.

Estimated annual congestion costs (combined): $136 million Big problems: Inbound traffic, which, for reasons that are unclear, is particularly bad in the afternoon, the opposite of what one would ...

A record 71.7 million are traveling by car, the AAA projects, adding to potential traffic jams across the country. McGhee Tyson Airport braces for 6,000+ travelers on day before Thanksgiving ...