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When your navigation app (e.g. Waze<\/a>) suggests an alternate route to avoid congestion, that has knock-on effects on the communities you’re routed through, particularly when a lot of traffic gets pushed onto quiet residential streets. \u00a0That’s the situation in Leonia, New Jersey, the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>, where later this month the police will be closing some 60 streets to non-local traffic in hopes of routing all that Wazer traffic somewhere else. Some of the somewhere elses aren’t happy with this move, naturally. [Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When your navigation app (e.g. Waze) suggests an alternate route to avoid congestion, that has knock-on effects on the communities you’re routed through, particularly when a lot of traffic gets pushed onto quiet residential streets.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,80],"tags":[17,219,1124],"class_list":["post-1099657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","category-mobile","tag-new-jersey","tag-traffic","tag-waze","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785427,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/an-update-on-leonia-njs-war-on-waze\/","url_meta":{"origin":1099657,"position":0},"title":"An Update on Leonia, NJ’s War on Waze","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Leonia, New Jersey's decision to close its residential streets to non-residents (previously)\u2014an attempt to deal with the traffic being routed that way by navigation apps like Waze\u2014has also, like the apps that created the problem in the first place, resulted in some unintended consequences. On, for example, visiting relatives and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "GPS"","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785149,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/traffic-congestion-mobile-apps-and-game-theory\/","url_meta":{"origin":1099657,"position":1},"title":"Traffic Congestion, Mobile Apps and Game Theory","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OTYHrozkazg There have been numerous complaints that mobile map apps have been dumping traffic from freeways onto nearby residential streets (previously). But a team of researchers, including Berkeley's Alexandre Bayen, have been looking at the problem from the perspective of game theory (see papers here and here). 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