--- --- # How to Improve Your Commute With Apps That Talk to Traffic Lights by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 23, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 23, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Improve your commute with apps that talk to traffic lights.**](http://daily.jstor.org/traffic-lights/) By Kristen Hall-Geisler in JSTOR Daily **2\.** [**If you grow up poor, your college degree is worth a little less.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/02/19-college-degree-worth-less-raised-poor-hershbein) By Brad Hershbein at the Brookings Institution **3\.** [**We need better presidential debates.**](http://robertrosenkranz.com/we-need-better-presidential-debates/) By Robert Rosenkranz and John Donvan in the Wall Street Journal **4\.** [**In the near future, the Army might 3D-print the right drone for the job, right on the battlefield.**](https://thestack.com/world/2016/02/19/u-s-army-testing-3d-printed-mission-specific-drones/) By Nicky Cappella in the Stack **5\.** [**If we reframe the data, autoimmune disease is a bigger public health crisis than cancer and heart disease combined.**](https://medium.com/tincture/an-invisible-epidemic-when-your-body-attacks-itself-autoimmune-disease-5738b699de12#.uxrx5fyqx) By Bonnie Feldman in Tincture  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How to Improve Your Commute With Apps That Talk to Traffic Lights ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4233592/improve-commute-with-apps-traffic-lights/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4233592/improve-commute-with-apps-traffic-lights/"},"headline":"How to Improve Your Commute With Apps That Talk to Traffic Lights","datePublished":"2016-02-23T17:01:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:22.312Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4233592/improve-commute-with-apps-traffic-lights/","keywords":["Innovation","Cancer","poverty","debate","Drones","Traffic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4233592/improve-commute-with-apps-traffic-lights/","name":"How to Improve Your Commute With Apps That Talk to Traffic Lights"}}]}] ```