--- title: These Intelligent Traffic Lights are Reducing Commutes by 25 Percent description: These intelligent traffic lights are reducing commutes by 25 percent, will social media help us manage panic in the next epidemic and more. canonical: https://time.com/4538368/these-intelligent-traffic-lights-are-reducing-commutes-by-25-percent/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-20T16:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:24.556Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Intelligent Traffic Lights are Reducing Commutes by 25 Percent og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4538368/these-intelligent-traffic-lights-are-reducing-commutes-by-25-percent/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Intelligent Traffic Lights are Reducing Commutes by 25 Percent twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Intelligent Traffic Lights are Reducing Commutes by 25 Percent by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 20, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 20, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**These intelligent traffic lights are reducing commutes by 25 percent.**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/robotics/artificial-intelligence/pittsburgh-smart-traffic-signals-will-make-driving-less-boring) By Prachi Patel in IEEE Spectrum **2\.** [**Will social media help us manage the next epidemic — or trigger panic?**](https://mosaicscience.com/story/going-viral-epidemics-infections-influenza-outbreaks?curator=MediaREDEF) By Mike Ives in Mosaic **3\.** [**Why black women should run for office.**](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/opinion-black-women-should-be-more-voters-n669041) By A’shanti F. Gholar at NBC News **4\.** [**Agility is overrated. Successful companies don’t adapt, they prepare.**](https://hbr.org/2016/10/successful-companies-dont-adapt-they-prepare) By Greg Satell in the Harvard Business Review **5\.** [**Is it ethical to use behavioral science to make an app addictive?**](https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-make-apps-addictive) By Ian Leslie in 1843 Magazine  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4538368/these-intelligent-traffic-lights-are-reducing-commutes-by-25-percent/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4538368/these-intelligent-traffic-lights-are-reducing-commutes-by-25-percent/"},"headline":"These Intelligent Traffic Lights are Reducing Commutes by 25 Percent","datePublished":"2016-10-20T16:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:24.556Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4538368/these-intelligent-traffic-lights-are-reducing-commutes-by-25-percent/","keywords":["Innovation","Social Media","politics","apps","Business topic"],"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/4538368/these-intelligent-traffic-lights-are-reducing-commutes-by-25-percent/","name":"These Intelligent Traffic Lights are Reducing Commutes by 25 Percent"}}]}] ```