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- Reduce traffic congestion: Wirelessly route drivers around congested roadways
- Engineers develop algorithms to switch out and recharge battery modules in electric cars
- Global shift away from cars would save US$100 trillion, eliminate 1,700 megatons of carbon dioxide pollution
| Reduce traffic congestion: Wirelessly route drivers around congested roadways Posted: 17 Sep 2014 12:54 PM PDT At the Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress last week, MIT researchers received one of the best-paper awards for a new system, dubbed RoadRunner, that uses GPS-style turn-by-turn directions to route drivers around congested roadways. In simulations using data supplied by Singapore's Land Transit Authority, the researchers compared their system to one currently in use in Singapore, which charges drivers with dashboard-mounted transponders a toll for entering congested areas. |
| Engineers develop algorithms to switch out and recharge battery modules in electric cars Posted: 17 Sep 2014 10:18 AM PDT Imagine being able to switch out the batteries in electric cars just like you switch out batteries in a photo camera or flashlight. A team of engineers are trying to accomplish just that, in partnership with an engineering company. They have developed smaller units within the battery, called modules, and a battery management system that will allow them to swap out and recharge the modules. |
| Posted: 17 Sep 2014 04:33 AM PDT More than $100 trillion in cumulative public and private spending, and 1,700 megatons of annual carbon dioxide -- a 40 percent reduction of urban passenger transport emissions -- could be eliminated by 2050 if the world expands public transportation, walking and cycling in cities, according to a new report. |
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