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Focuses on how technology has influenced traffic regulation in the United States. Technological devices used by traffic authorities to catch traffic violators; Amount of fines required from traffic violators; Process of paying for traffic fines.

The article announces that New York City will suspend its alternate-side street-cleaning regulations on Friday, October 26, 2012 in observance of the Islamic feast and festival Id al-Adha.

LONDON -- Londoners, forced to navigate a vast city using one of the largest and oldest public transit systems in the world and a road network first laid out by the Romans, are not noted for suffering transportation woes in silence. But the everyday grumbling here sharpened Wednesday as the restrictions and increased demands of the Olympic Games began to bite. London has spent more than $9 billion on refurbishing its creaking transportation infrastructure -- parts of its underground train network date from 1863 -- in time for the Games. The road and rail system will face a million trips a day in addition to the usual 3.5 million when the Games begin Friday, transportation officials warned in a news conference on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conundrum that Samuel I. Schwartz, the traffic engineering expert, faced was this: How could the already jam-packed streets in the heart of Brooklyn accommodate thousands of extra cars filled with fans traveling to a basketball arena and desperately searching for parking? His answer, revealed on Tuesday to a panel of Brooklyn officials with all the flourish and detail of a general planning to storm the beaches of Normandy, was to discourage driving entirely, by cutting the number of parking spaces at the Barclays Center in half. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With his lean frame topped by a shock of thick graying hair, 42-year-old Alan Kayser is the epitome of a seasoned cyclist. He does not look like a criminal, but recently he was pulled over on his bike and fingerprinted by a sheriff's officer. ''He fingerprinted everybody,'' Mr. Kayser said. ''That's how they ID people.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information related to congestion pricing in the U.S. Economist William Vickrey is the father of congestion pricing. It is considered as the best way to traffic control as it encourages people to car-pool, or to drive at different times of the day, or to take the train or bus. Congestion pricing is a welcome step as building more roads will never be a solution to traffic problems.

Examines the usefulness of the red-light cameras that are placed at intersections and can take a picture of a car that runs a red light. Belief that the reduction in side collisions has been equaled by an increase in rear-end collisions as drivers try to stop late to avoid a ticket; Critics who charge that the revenue-sharing arrangements with the providers of the technology has resulted in the placement of the cameras not where they would promote safety, but where they can make the most money; Malfunctions and legal challenges which have led some cities to remove them while others are adding them; How they work; Comments from the leading provider, Affiliated Computer Services, on upcoming technology; Arguments for and against the system.

Cites the plan to announce the intention of New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey to speed traffic on the Garden State Parkway by directing northbound traffic to head through the Raritan Plaza without stopping at the toll gates and the equivalent scheme for southbound vehicles at Asbury Park Plaza.