CBS News

Traffic deaths rise in U.S. cities despite billions spent to make streets safer

Amy Corral is an award winning investigative journalist based in Los Angeles. She joined CBS News & Stations as a national investigative producer in 2022. Two years after her 5-year-old daughter Allie ...
Newsweek

You Wasted $771 Sitting in Traffic Last Year

The average driver lost $771 in time and productivity due to traffic jams in 2024, a transportation analyst at INRIX told Newsweek. INRIX, a global transportation data and analytics leader, released ...
The Conversation

Robocars promise to improve traffic even when most of the cars around them are driven by people, study finds

Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety and energy consumption, my colleagues and I ...
The New York Times

Traffic Enforcement Dwindled in the Pandemic. In Many Places, It Hasn’t Come Back.

In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, traffic stops by the police plummeted around the country, as fewer cars were on the road and as agencies instructed officers to avoid nonessential contact ...
Futurism

Google’s AI Traffic Light Project May Have Been a Mistake

Google claims that its quietly rolled-out AI traffic signal project streamlines the process and reduces stoplight wait times — but it’s unclear exactly how helpful it really is. While relying on ...
NPR

Traffic congestion hits a record high, spreading to more hours of the week

A few weeks ago, Taelyr Vecchione vented her growing frustration with traffic in San Diego. "Do you remember when traffic started at, like, 5?" she said in this video posted on TikTok. Vecchione ...
The Hill

Traffic has gotten way worse in these US cities, report finds

(NEXSTAR) – You’re not imagining it. Traffic congestion worsened last year in just about every American city studied by navigation and GPS company TomTom. Residents of 90 large and mid-sized cities, ...