The guys at Google have nearly made your GPS obsolete after an announcement Monday that it’s Android Google Maps Navigation application has added real-time traffic re-routing. Of particular note… the app is free for Android users, something that can be said about comparable iPhone apps, let along Tom-Tom and Garmin. Via Google’s the Official Google [...]
According to a report from the Texas Transportation Institute, motorists across the country in 2007 combined to spend the equivalent of 175 million days in traffic and purchase an extra 2.8 billion gallons of fuel due to congestion. The 2009 Urban Mobility Report, which the institute released in July, states the figures actually represent a [...]
A preliminary study released by the Illinois Department of Transportation finds that a north-south expressway connecting the Jane Addams Tollway to the Tri-State Tollway on the west side O’Hare International Airport would significantly cut travel times to the airport. In addition, a long-planned extension of the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway would contribute to halving travel times for [...]
What do the Stevenson Expressway, Interstate 80, Ill. 59 and the Kennedy Expressway have in common? They are among a group of highways that cause Chicago commuters the most pain, according to the “Commuter Pain Index” released on Friday by IBM. In Friday’s Chicago Tribune, Jon Hilkevitch’s story on the study nails the symptoms to [...]
Here’s ABC7′s take on the announcement that Chicago is one of the most congested cities in the country, according to the INRIX company.
Read and browse PDFs of reports and studies looking at Chicago traffic and how best to battle congestions.