Traffic Intelligence
From Reactive to Proactive: How Cities Catch Traffic Problems Before They Form
How cities move from reacting to jams to catching them 15 to 30 minutes early. What predictive traffic management is, and Pune's measured result.
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Traffic intelligence, unpacked
Data-driven insights on urban mobility, smart city technology, and how software is reshaping traffic management.
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Traffic Intelligence
Smart Cities Were Supposed to Fix Traffic. They Mostly Didn't.
The Smart Cities Mission put sensors and cameras on more Indian junctions than anything before it, and traffic still got worse. Here's what I think actually went wrong, and why most of that data turned out to be nearly unusable.
Field Notes
Does Shillong Even Have a Traffic Problem?
Notes from onboarding a city with no traffic lights. I went in assuming Shillong barely had a traffic problem, and came back convinced this product might matter more to small, growing cities than to the big, broken ones we usually build for.
Traffic Intelligence
How Cities Monitor Traffic: The 5 Methods, and What Each One Misses
Cities monitor traffic using loops, cameras, radar, manual surveys and probe data. Here's how each method works, what it costs, and what it leaves out.
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Congested roads are the real cause
Traffic Intelligence
The Real Bottleneck
Most congested roads aren't the problem; they're backed up behind one. How software separates traffic causes from symptoms, on every road, no cameras.
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Annual Lost Productivity
Smart Cities
The hidden cost of congestion nobody measures
Most cities track vehicle counts. Few measure the economic impact of every extra minute stuck in traffic.