September 28, 2011
"Congestion does more than choke our highways, it chokes our economy, making it harder to buy what we need and harder to keep or find a job. That’s a bad thing – especially when our economic recovery is so fragile."

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Quote by Tim Lomax, one of the authors of The 2011 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University.  Quote found at Traffic problems tied to the economy, study says

2011 Urban mobility report

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Filed under: traffic congestion urban mobility economy 
September 12, 2011
"We can’t simply build our way out of congestion no matter which city. In order to improve traffic flow and congestion, cities need to move beyond knowing and reacting; they have to find ways to anticipate and avoid situations that cause congestion that could turn the world into one giant parking lot."

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Quote by Vinodh Swaminathan, director of intelligent transportation systems, IBM.  Quote found at IBM Global Commuter Pain Survey: Traffic Congestion Down, Pain Way Up - United States

Consumer Congestion Pain

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Filed under: traffic congestion intelligent-transportation ITS ibm traffic-congestion smarter-cities smart-cities smarter-planet 
June 11, 2011
"We must develop these Intelligent Transportation System standards now while the technology is being researched and developed or we will end up with a variety of standards and vehicles that cannot talk to each other from region to region. Failure to develop globally harmonized standards would delay deployment, decrease reliability and unnecessarily increase costs."

— Quote by Jim Vondale, director, Ford Automotive Safety Office found in “Ford and World Safety Leaders Work to Launch Intelligent Vehicles Quicker”

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Filed under: transportation its intelligent smart-cities smarter-cities smarter-transportation automobiles cars congestion standards 
May 18, 2011
"I think this technology will transform urban transportation."

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Quote by Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs as found in CNN.com article “Streetline’s silver bullet for urban traffic problems”

Streetline

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Filed under: traffic city urban congestion commuting sensors data analytics sensors 
May 9, 2011
"The recent IBM Commuter Pain Study paints a grim picture of metropolitan-area commuters in many cities struggling to get to and from work each day, often with negative consequences. For example, 57 percent of all respondents say that roadway traffic has negatively affected their health, but that percentage soars to 96 percent in New Delhi and 95 percent in Beijing."

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Quote found at “IBM Traffic Congestion - Ideas”

Traffic

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Filed under: traffic ibm smarter-cities smart-cities congestion travel intelligence sensors 
April 29, 2011
"In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will allow drivers to quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, and save time and fuel."

— Quote found in an IBM press release “IBM, Caltrans and UC Berkeley Aim to Help Commuters Avoid Congested Roadways Before their Trip Begins”

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Filed under: IBM research ibm-research transportation caltrans berkeley congestion commuters travel commute fuel sensors 
April 21, 2011
"Imagine a world where no one ever gets stuck in traffic — where cars have built-in sensors that can predict where and when future accidents will occur, keeping commuters out of harm’s way. That’s never going to happen. But IBM, Caltrans, and the University of California at Berkeley are working on the next best thing: personalized commuter forecasts that analyze the traffic on individual routes, warn drivers of the rush-hour madness to come before they leave the house, and suggest new travel plans (including alternative forms of transportation)."

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Quote found at CNN.com article: IBM will go all Watson on your commute

Traffic

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(Notes: 10)
  
Filed under: watson traffic congestion sensors analytics IBM smarter-travel smarter-cities caltrans cars 
April 20, 2011
"In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research, with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), a research institute at the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will let drivers quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, and save time and fuel."

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Quote found at IBM, Caltrans and UC Berkeley Aim to Help Commuters

Smarter Traveler

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Filed under: traffic smarter congestion jam cars travel commute ibm caltrans 
April 18, 2011
"Unlike existing traffic-alert solutions, we’re helping take the guesswork out of commuting. By actively capturing and analyzing the massive amount of data already being collected, we’re blending the automated learning of travel routes with state-of-the-art traffic prediction of those routes, to give travelers timely information that can help them make decisions about the best way to get to their destination."

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Quote by Stefan Nusser of IBM Almaden Services Research found at wired.com article “IBM App Predicts How Your Commute Will Go”

Traffic

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Filed under: traffic cities sensors congestion commute commuting cars travel ibm 
November 5, 2010
"Unprecedented awareness about the hazards of automotive emissions, improved technologies for renewable energy, smart grids, and electric /hybrid vehicles has driven most companies around the world to search for more sustainable and profitable models for mobility"

— Quote by Mr. Darren George, Frost & Sullivan Global Customer Research Director in a press release “Frost & Sullivan Starts Worldwide Urban Mobility Research; 24,000 Commuters in 20 Cities to be Interviewed over 12 months”

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Filed under: traffic mobility smarter-planet smarter-cities smart-cities sensors congestion frost&sullivan 
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