Center for Transportation Research News

Traffic noise is influencing the behavior of animals, causing some birds to move their singing activities to night and affecting nearby frog populations.

Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday.
A well-projected and energetic croak is the male frog’s [...]

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According to the 2009 Urban Mobility Report, recently published by The Texas Transportation Institute:
Travelers spent one hour less stuck in traffic in 2007 than they did the year before and wasted one gallon less gasoline than the year before. The differences are small, but they represent a rare break in near-constant growth in traffic over [...]

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MIT mathematicians have developed a new model to explain why some traffic jams seem to occur for no apparent reason.
Formation of a \"phantom traffic jam\"
Once such a jam is formed, it’s almost impossible to break up — drivers just have to wait it out, says Morris Flynn, lead author of the paper. However, the model [...]

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