Most simulation pipelines can model facilities, equipment, and routing with high accuracy-but often miss a key driver of real-world performance: human operations. Operator cycle-time variation, work ...

In this bustling part of Chengdu, modern buildings rise over controlled traffic and protected greenery. The city shows how growth can be managed with structure, balance, and a vision that values both ...

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are essential for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) because they allow for real-time decision-making, predictive ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space and time has remained fundamentally disconnected. Relativity unifies space ...

The passage of time is inextricably tied to how humans perceive our own experiences. We confuse our perspective on reality with reality itself. “Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on” ...

With just a few thousand autonomous vehicles on the road today, widespread adoption of driverless cars may seem like a far-fetched fantasy. But a robotaxi-dominated future might be arriving faster ...

The time is ripe to end the “Wolf Amendment,” a congressional bar inhibiting civil collaboration between the United States and China in space. The impetus for the law was noble — an attempt to ...

Michaela "Michi" Benthaus and teammates spent several minutes in microgravity. Blue Origin made history Saturday, sending for the first time a person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, seen during a star’s violent destruction, confirms a prediction made ...

Friday was bittersweet in the WTOP newsroom as our very own traffic reporter Bob Immler celebrated his last day before retiring after over four decades in the traffic business. Immler started ...