Smart City Dispatch · Glossary
Traffic congestion
Demand for road space exceeds practical capacity at particular places or times, producing delay, unreliable travel times, wasted fuel or energy, and secondary effects such as pollution.
Traffic congestion
Demand for road space exceeds practical capacity at particular places or times, producing delay, unreliable travel times, wasted fuel or energy, and secondary effects such as pollution.
Smart-city relevance: Adaptive signal control, transit priority, congestion pricing, parking information, multimodal routing, and better demand forecasting can help - but technology cannot remove induced demand or poor land-use choices.
Related: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)