Science Daily: Communicating vehicles could ease through intersections more efficiently, study finds
Science Daily covered the new study by MIT and ETH scholars "Revisiting street intersections using slot-based systems".
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Petra Parikova
external pageThe articlecall_made was published in Science Daily in March 2016. The external pageresearch papercall_made was published in PLOS One also in March.
"Imagine a scenario where sensor-laden vehicles pass through intersections by communicating with each other, rather than grinding to a halt at traffic lights. A newly published study co-authored by MIT researchers claims this kind of traffic-light-free transportation design, if it ever arrives, could allow twice as much traffic to use the roads," Science Daily wrote.