Ride-sharing, carpooling and traffic congestion Traffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: it’s also a public-health hazard and bad news for the economy. Transportation studies put the annu... Read more
Researchers in Uruguay have developed an evolutionary algorithm to allow a smart city to facilitate efficient taxi sharing to cut an individual’s transport costs as well as reduce cong... Read more
A new analytic framework enables analysis of GPS data on 150 million cab rides in New York City. Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity: The car-se... Read more
With a near record-setting investment announced last week, the ride-sharing service Uber is the hottest, most valuable technology start-up on the planet. It is also one of the most controver... Read more