Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups – MIT News Office

In the Boston area, they found that canceling 1 percent of trips by select drivers in the Massachusetts municipalities of Everett, Marlborough, Lawrence, Lowell and Waltham would cut all drivers’ additional commuting time caused by traffic congestion by 18 percent. In the San Francisco area, canceling trips by drivers from Dublin, Hayward, San Jose, San Rafael and parts of San Ramon would cut 14 percent from the travel time of other drivers.

via Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups – MIT News Office.

HT Nancy

How did they cancel or delay trips?

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