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Really so Different) IDG News Service - Those routinely stuck in
urban traffic jams can take heart in the fact that scientists
may have found a way to reduce congestion, by rethinking the way
traffic lights should operate. Two European researchers, Dirk
Helbing of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and
Stefan Lämmer of Dresden University of Technology in Germany,
propose changing the way intersection traffic lights are timed,
using a combination of sensing technology, analytics and
networking. Rather than the usual approach of coordinating the
timing the lights along the road in a way that anticipates the
usual flow of traffic, the researchers suggest letting traffic
lights themselves judge when to turn green or red. "Instead of
waiting for a certain point in time before switching to green,
we now wait fo