News tagged with pedestrian area

Google, on tricycle, captures gardens of Versailles

Google's tricycle-mounted cameras on Monday shot footage of the 17th century gardens of France's Chateau de Versailles destined for its Street View service by year's end.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Civil engineers find savings where the rubber meets the road

A new study by civil engineers at MIT shows that using stiffer pavements on the nation’s roads could reduce vehicle fuel consumption by as much as 3 percent — a savings that could add up to 273 million ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

App helps border crossers brave long wait times

“A gem of an app.” “Clean UI [user interface], very easy to use.” “Eliminates the guess work!”

Technology / Software

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a new book, an MIT urban planner rethinks the mundane, ubiquitous parking lot

Quick: Name a great parking lot.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Tracking pedestrians indoors using their smart phones

The next generation of smart phone could combine the data from its gyroscopes with a built-in compass to allow you to track your movements when indoors even without GPS. Such a system could be useful for shopping mall managers, ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

No method in traffic madness

Tourists often assume the chaos on Vietnam's roads does not translate to a high crash rate. Nothing could be further from the truth, writes Anna Hollows.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Simulator computes evacuation scenarios for major events

Predicting how large numbers of visitors to major events will behave is difficult. To prevent disasters, however, the police, rescue services and event organizers have to be able to identify dangerous bottlenecks, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Music listeners attentive while crossing street, research shows

We may not know why the iPod user crossed the road, but research indicates he paid as much attention in doing so as the typical non-iPod user.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Quarter of tweets not worth reading, Twitter users tell researchers

Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn't mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More efforts needed to address motor vehicle deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives

More research and programs are needed to address the elevated rate of motor vehicle-related deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wind experts advise on revolutionary wind-powered skyscraper

The infamous winds that gust through downtown San Francisco streets, overturning kiosks and sometimes toppling pedestrians, will help to power a revolutionary skyscraper set to open next fall -- and could ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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