Important as technology is, solutions to gridlock cannot only be tech-driven, says Richard Kemp-Harper, lead technologist for transport at Technology Strategy Board.
Nathalie Criou, co-founder and chief executive of RidePal, said offering a shuttle service could mean the difference between hiring talented workers or losing them to the competition, particularly in the Bay Area, where highways gridlocked between San Francisco and Silicon Valley technology campuses can eat hours out of the day.
After all, if you're stuck on 101 between San Francisco and Burlingame, Calif., or gridlocked in Bangkok, a little wireless technology could stave off road rage not to mention help you use such forced downtime more effectively.
Indeed, the answer to today's gridlock, whenever it comes, will involve new technology that lets controllers track more planes in the sky -- and, possibly, new economics that let market forces allocate the system's scarce resources.
As I sat in traffic for two hours commuting to the Pacific Palisades, I wondered how humans can build a decentralized internet using blockchain technology but they still can't solve an LA gridlock.
To address this post-genomic SM characterization gridlock, in this report we have demonstrated a new technology that generates a whole genome SM FAC library for expression in suitable host systems and characterization in high-throughput chemical analysis pipelines.
After Sept. 11, Raj Goel, the chief technology officer of Brainlink International, a technology services firm in Midtown Manhattan, began leaving for work at noon, to avoid gridlock.
Given our deficits and political gridlock, the only solution is to channel global, particularly Asian, liquidity into our own public infrastructure, creating jobs and technology platforms that can keep American innovation ahead of the pack.
