Navigation apps already know where stop signs and traffic lights are located, mainly because vehicles on the road stop in front of them. These applications collect traffic data that help them ...

Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety, and energy consumption, my colleagues and I ...

The digital battle between Waze and Google Maps has a clear winner; here's why Google Maps is trying to be more like Waze ...

Google Maps is working on new customization options for how vehicles are depicted. Existing options have consisted of a directional arrow, and three basic vehicles. After first testing on iOS, Maps ...

Traffic along some of Seattle’s stop-and-go streets is running a little more smoothly after Google tested out a new machine-learning system to optimize stoplight timing at five intersections. The ...