Transportation
More Cars on the Road Make You Late, But Some Cars Make You Much Later Than Others
A new study suggests that traffic reduction should be targeted at particular communities.
Researchers from UC Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that when it comes to traffic, some drivers are making you later than others.
How much later? The central finding of the the paper, published today in Scientific Reports, is that while keeping one percent of all drivers off the road cuts traffic congestion by three percent, eliminating the same number of drivers from particular neighborhoods can reduce travel time for everyone else by a whopping 18 percent.