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Smart Stoplights to Rush Hour Rescue

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How often do you suffer through traffic jams that waste time, money, natural resources, and effort? Now from the city with arguably the world’s worst traffic has come a civil engineer with a solution.

Samah Al-Tantawy has figured out a way to radically reduce congested traffic with a new system of stoplights that uses game theory and artificial intelligence to facilitate the flow of vehicles. Her “smart system” allows lights to send signals and data to neighboring intersections, which coordinate with one other to redirect traffic and undo gridlock. In tests in Toronto rush hour, it reduced delays by 40% and travel time by 26%.

Tantawy hopes to implement the new system in Egypt, where she plans to return, and estimates that the project will cost a mere $30,000 USD per year. Meanwhile, the 2012 PhD graduate from the University of Toronto has won awards from the institutes of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Operations Research and Management Sciences for her ingenuity.

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Jennifer MacKenzie

Poet, writer and teacher Jennifer MacKenzie grew up on Bloomcrest Dr. in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which inspired her to wonder about places with patterns other than floral. Following her education at Wesleyan University's College of Letters and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, she followed a zig-zag course that included a pilgrimage across the top of Spain and a long sojourn in Syria in pursuit of the language of Muhammad al-Maghout and Moudthaffar al-Nawwab. While in Damascus she completed the books of poems "Distant City" and "My Not-My Soldier" (forthcoming from Fence Books) and edited the magazine Syria Today. Her poems and essays can be found in numerous journals including the Kenyon Review online, Guernica, Quarterly West, and Lungfull. She currently lives in New York.

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