Defined as transport of a person for work or services within or across national borders through force, deception, or abuse of authority, trafficking annually victimizes millions, trapping them in virtual slavery as commercial sex workers or domestic or sweatshop workers.
Being able to monitor the flow of people around a city in real time would provide invaluable information to urban planners, transport authorities, traffic engineers and even some businesses.
Appearing on the first page of Google search results can give websites with questionable editorial principles undue authority and traffic.
The algorithms I.B.M. developed could help the authority set traffic signals, plan for big events, alert drivers about conditions ahead and set prices for road use.
But the nonprofit AAA foundation, itself an authority on traffic safety, put $750,000 into developing its programs, and reports that they are selling briskly.
Far inland, hastily erected checkpoints known as Functional Equivalents of the Border and carrying court-sanctioned search authority use traffic cones to funnel vehicles into single lanes for easier surveillance.
State Senator Thomas Kean Jr. got a step closer to striking a small blow against unwieldy bureaucracy last week when the Senate Transportation Committee passed a bill that would grant local officials authority over traffic signs on local roads.
Likewise, the Federal Highway Administration has primary authority over traffic noise yet this agency's core mission is to build, maintain, and upgrade the nation's road system.
Are we becoming Israel?" (Russian authorities say traffic through the tunnel that night was either an ordinary troop rotation or supplies for their peacekeepers).
Guatemalan newspapers reported that Mr. Gómez and Ms. Bonilla faced charges including abuse of authority, drug trafficking and obstruction of justice.
