traffic engineering http://localhost/taxonomy/term/433/all en Fake complexity: traffic control http://localhost/2009/07/24/fake-complexity-traffic-control <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The <a href="http://www.its.umn.edu/index.html">University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute</a> has produced a handy little flash game where you can experience the life of a traffic planner in a series of increasingly complicated traffic challenges.</p> <p><a href="http://www.its.umn.edu/trafficcontrolgame/"><img class="alignnone" title="Gridlock buster" src="http://www.its.umn.edu/trafficcontrolgame/gridlock.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a></p></div></div></div> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:23:57 +0000 Mathieu Helie 140 at http://localhost A pattern language for New York streets http://localhost/2009/05/22/a-pattern-language-for-new-york-streets <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The New York City Department of Transportation has published its <a href="http://nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/streetdesignmanual.shtml">street design manual</a>, a collection of patterns that make absolutely no references to any traffic control devices of any kind.</p></div></div></div> Fri, 22 May 2009 17:02:31 +0000 Mathieu Helie 131 at http://localhost The geometry of nowhere http://localhost/2009/04/04/geometry-nowhere <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I hate sidewalks.</p></div></div></div> Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:00:51 +0000 Mathieu Helie 126 at http://localhost