Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems

vu1986 writes "Boston won the opportunity to pick the brains of six IBM engineers — including one from Tokyo — who flew in to check out its traffic situation and figure out a way to consolidate, analyze and use existing traffic data feeds as well as new data sources including (of course) Twitter feeds, to ease the city's notorious traffic jams."

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[Voogru]

Get rid of the damn traffic lights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_wjo378h4
The only problem is they can't put red light cameras for free money, oh no.

Re:Tweaks to the cultural problem

[illogict]

Wait, what? There's been no 1st class in Paris metro since 1991.