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The traffic crowds seen in intersection of streets is highly influential in development, worldwide. It obstructs productivity and reduces the time of real and effective work The traffic lights help regulate the vehicles motion but its efficiency is limited in solving the traffic jam problem. We need a solution that guarantees smooth traffic.
Contributed by mutaz ali, Wafaiyah

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Known Solutions

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Front and Rear Censors

Traffic jams on the freeway occur for no reason, its just the logic of waves, one person breaks for a short duration and sets off a chain reaction, by the time the wave reaches the back, all of the ...

Create rail train commuting

The rail trains or subways have proven to be an effective commuter system for high population urban cities. With the potential stimulus money available, a commuter train or subway could be developed f...

Decentralization

Traffic jams is a problem of urban areas to be specific about it...and not of the countryside... One dynamics that is involved is that people go to places where they need something or are needed to be...

Car Sharing

Groups exist that share cars. Somewhat like a car library, a car is borrowed and returned. Cars are used by a minimum of 4 at a time so that cuts 3 cars off the road. Trips are coordinated on line ...

A Threefold Approach

The solution for the problem of traffic congestion is three-fold. First, it requires an expansion of access to public transportation. While public transportation is utilized within most large urban ...

Innovative Solutions

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More "intelegent" traffic lights

Make the traffic lights more productive/active. It should be interactive with a traffic adaptation; it should be an eye and should know counting or measuring the number of vehicles in all directions. ...

Change the roadway infrastructure. Create flexible roads.

This is a solution for 2-way roads, which have 2 or 3 line (for 2 or 3 cars) in each direction. Normally such roads lead from the outer areas to the center of the city. Thus always in the morning on t...

3 dimensional roundabouts

This is an elaborate solution for highway congestion with more than 4 converging highways that somewhat resembles how air traffic is managed in ascent and descent corridors. Really, converging more th...

Utilization of current roads

One problem with traffic jams is that they are caused when people believe a large main road is the fastest way to where they want to go. By providing other routes that utilize other streets that are e...

Time management

If companies realize the time their employees totally waste, they would opt for varying work hours and work shifts. Let's look at a common urban area commuter, he wastes an extra hour in the morning ...

Solo driver reduction

The reason most rapid transit solutions do not work is because they have not been made attractive enough. If you could have free phone and internet while riding and have nearing destination personaliz...

avoiding traffic jam

Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a meta-heuristic based on colony of artificial ants which work cooperatively, building solutions by moving on the problem graph and by communicating through artificial...

Traffic Jam

Rush Hour The next time you’re stuck in traffic, look into the cars around you. Six seat sedan…only one person….18% capacity. Eight seat van…two people …. 25% capacity. In general, we...

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They just need to build a under pass at every lights. so they would dig down 20 m by 20 meters & would pre make up big cement slabs. The cement slabs would just drop down & sit in place with pre m...
- Scott Ryan

So often people do not have to be "working" in the same place. Relying more on internet connection work is a tremendous energy reducer. It also saves on transportation costs. With this comes virtua...
- Rick Goldman

This effect is called "TRAFFIC MEMORY".
- Geoffrey Goeggel

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