Engineering
As emergency coordinators across the U.S. prepare for the upcoming hurricane season, they are busy planning evacuation routes. Currently, these plans don't anticipate the needs of people driving electric vehicles, which have ...
Sep 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
More and more buses in the Netherlands are electric. By now, about 80% of all new buses are powered by an electric motor. Good news for the climate, you might say. But there is a problem: because it is often difficult to ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Business
Qantas has revealed plans for the world's longest-duration commercial flight by the end of 2025, ferrying passengers between Sydney and London on Airbus A350s in just over 19 hours.
May 2, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A new approach to solving the traveling salesperson problem—one of the most difficult questions in computer science—significantly outperforms current approaches.
Apr 26, 2022
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Business
New Zealand's flagship airline on Wednesday announced a plan to raise $1.5 billion to hire more staff, buy new planes and expand its routes as it seeks to rebuild from deep losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mar 30, 2022
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Automotive
Time for a road trip. You punch the destination into your GPS and choose the suggested route. But is this shortest route the safest? Not necessarily, according to new findings from Texas A&M University researchers.
Feb 23, 2022
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Automotive
A study of nearly 35,000 routes to work revealed that people were most likely to choose to cycle when traffic speeds along their route were under 20mph—providing evidence to debates about speed limits in urban areas.
Dec 22, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Everyone knows the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. However, when you're walking along city streets, a straight line may not be possible. How do you decide which way to go?
Oct 18, 2021
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Internet
Google on Tuesday said it will start showing users of its free Maps navigation service travel routes less damaging to the environment as just one of some 100 coming upgrades.
Mar 30, 2021
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Computer Sciences
One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of the problem is when the route traverses a changing network—whether this be a road network ...
Mar 11, 2021
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