We are a nutty nationhood:
In the United States hundreds of engineers make careers out of studying traffic.
Entire freeway systems like L.A.’s have been hardwired with sensors connecting to computer banks that aggregate vehicle flow, monitor bottlenecks, explain congestion in complicated algorithms.
Yet cars spend just 5 percent of their lives in motion… !
…and until recently there was only one individual in the country devoting his academic career to studying parking lots and street meters: Donald Shoup.