The big picture: Google is analyzing data from its maps to suggest how cities can adjust traffic light timing to optimize traffic flow and reduce emissions. The company claims it's already cutting ...

Getting stuck in traffic and hitting several red lights in a row isn't just frustrating and bad for stress levels, it's also bad for the environment. But one U.S. city is getting help from a tech ...

Locked in bumper-to-bumper traffic, eyes glazing over at the traffic light seemingly frozen on red. As if on cue, a nearby driver blares their horn for a cathartic release as another yells a string of ...

Through its Maps app, Google has access to a monster trove of daily traffic data – and it's using it to provide cities with free, AI-optimized traffic signal timing suggestions that could reduce ...

Google’s Project Green Light has been implemented at a couple intersections along 15th Avenue Northwest in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Next time you avoid sitting ...

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Each time a driver in Seattle meets a red light, they wait about 20 seconds on average before it turns green again, according to vehicle and smartphone data collected by analytics company Inrix. The ...

Quebec City has started synchronizing traffic lights with the use of Google’s artificial intelligence, technology the city says will improve traffic flow, reduce congestion, and lower greenhouse gas ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile and the Alabama Department of Transportation celebrated the end of a major project to retime 682 traffic lights along Southwest Alabama. Several drivers spoke ...