ITS Centre’s virtual model improves traffic

By Stephen Strauss, for University Affairs

Less congested roads and new technologies possible

Traffic Jam in Delhi. Source: Wikimedia Commons/UNOMAD

Traffic Jam in Delhi. Source: Wikimedia Commons/UNOMAD

When your career is devoted to developing better methods of keeping highways from melting into endless traffic jams, every congestion-trapped person you encounter feels free to offer what he believes is sage advice. This was the case with Yaseen Abdulhai, the 11-year-old son of traffic engineering professor Baher Abdulhai, who, when stuck in traffic one day, turned to his father and innocently opined: “If the first man in the line picks up speed everyone will be able to pick up and go faster and that will make everything better.”

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