While the universal traffic light design that the entire planet currently uses (still) does its job very well, there are experts who believe that this critical component of today’s traffic should be ...

The stop light was a design inevitability. As cars grew in popularity around the turn of the 20th century, several inventors developed a glowing box filled with round, incandescent lights to tell ...

Game-changing technology to design traffic lights that absorb kinetic energy, stopping them from crumpling when hit by a vehicle, will prevent thousands of fatalities and injuries each year and make ...

Game-changing technology to design traffic lights that absorb kinetic energy, stopping them from crumpling when hit by a vehicle, will prevent thousands of fatalities and injuries each year and make ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A new kind of traffic light design is catching drivers’ eyes, and intentionally limiting their view, at major intersections across Beaumont. Slatted visors have been installed on ...

LAPORTE — A system of traffic lights held up by cables is not the vision for a pedestrian friendly downtown officials are working hard to create in LaPorte. So Mayor Tom Dermody wants ideas from the ...

Dutch cities are famous for keeping traffic flowing smoothly, and smart traffic light design is a big reason why. This video explains how the Netherlands uses advanced sensors, dynamic timing, and ...

Every time we stop at a red light, wait patiently for green, or slow down on yellow, we’re participating in a system that quietly keeps billions of people safe. But have you ever wondered who invented ...

The concept of the traffic light actually dates all the way back to the 1860s, where gas-lit signals were placed on the posh streets that lined the Houses of Parliament in London. Of course, back then ...