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Can We Fix Traffic By Paying Commuters to Play a Video Game?

Congestion pricing penalizes commuters. A new approach uses creative incentives to modify traffic patterns instead.

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Olympic Blues: London Cabbies Feel Left Out of the Party

Barred from access to Olympic VIP traffic lanes, many cabbies would rather park their iconic rides than suffer through snarled traffic.

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An App that Sees and Prevents Future Traffic Jams

Windows Phone app Greenway knows where the traffic will be before it strikes and gets you to your destination twice as fast.

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Human Infographic! GOOD Attacks Traffic in Los Angeles

GOOD Attacks! brought an infographic flashmob to downtown Los Angeles.

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Will Los Angeles Survive? The Best Carmageddon PSA Ever

Angelenos, we know you're freaking, but this video will help you brave this weekend's shutdown of the 405.

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It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Why We're Pro-Carmageddon

Construction work is shutting down L.A.'s 405 freeway and people are being told to stay out of their cars. Sounds like the perfect new holiday.

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Can These Two College Students Solve the Carpooling Puzzle?

Two students from the University of Costa Rica want to reduce the number of wasteful solo car trips by making carpooling with strangers safe and easy.

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Yet Another Reason Sprawl Sucks: Long Commutes Cause Divorce

Sprawl development isn't just bad for the environment, but also for relationships.

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Bike-Loving French City Wants to Lower Speed Limit to 18 mph Strasbourg, France to Make Speed Limit 30 Kmph

Strasbourg has a windy city center and a vision for shared streets. Residents will soon vote on lowering the speed limit to encourage more walking.

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Want to Buy a Car in Beijing? You'll Need to Win the Lottery

In response to unbearable congestion, China is setting up a lottery to determine who gets to buy a car this year in Beijing.

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GOOD Design Daily: Eight Smarter Traffic Lights

Our traffic light hasn't kept up with the innovation offered in our vehicles. These eight concepts improve our ability to stop and go.

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Intermission: Culture Traffic Jamming

In this video, the artists Rune Madsen messes with the flow of traffic on a city sidewalk and reveals something essential about human behavior.

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Jersey Barriers to Get an Artist's Makeover in NYC

It's a smart move to transform the constant construction sites inherent in infrastructure upgrades into a canvas for local expression.

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The Merits of the Diverging Diamond Interchange

This strange style of highway interchange that requires drivers to switch to the wrong side of the road actually reduced accidents in Missouri.

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Hey L.A., on 10/10/10 Come Out and Play at CicLAvia

Celebrate a car-free Los Angeles on 10/10/10 at CicLAvia.

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The Traffic Light of Tomorrow Will Make Its Own Decisions

New research finds that a self organizing system of semi-autonomous traffic lights could reduce urban driving delays by 10 to 30 percent.