TrafficTalk

Please drive safely during this Memorial Day Weekend. Please keep your eyes on the road and hands away from your smartphone.

The latest Texas A&M Transportation Institute study shows Washington, DC with the worst commute. After Washington, the most congested cities in 2011 were Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland, New York-Newark, Boston, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle.

Commuters' wasted time in traffic costs $121B - The nation's commuters are adapting to increasing traffic congestion by building delays into their schedules, but at a cost of $121 billion in wasted time and fuel, according to an annual study of national driving patterns released Tuesday.

A social scientist goes around the world and empties the contents of people's cars--what do the contents reveal about us? A fascinating (and entertaining) presentation from DC Week.

Video: Genevieve Bell Of Intel Takes An Anthropological Look At Mobility What does mobility mean to you and how does it affect your life? Genevieve Bell an Intel fellow, social scientist and anthropologist by trade has some interesting ideas as she has been researching this question for Intel with various projects for quite sometime. We caught up with Genevieve previousl...

Washington, DC takes the top spot as the most congested metro area in the Texas Transportation Institute's annual urban mobility report.

Bad traffic congestion can be a good sign for jobs Most big metropolitan areas that saw congestion worsen last year over 2009 also tend to be better off economically, a study says.

It's "Terrible Traffic Tuesday"--with children back in school and parents back from summer vacations, it's a good time to remind everyone to please drive carefully, particularly around school zones.