Often what jams us up is sewage.

Jonas Eliasson How to solve traffic jams

We've been in worse jams than this, haven't we, Hildy?

And all this against incredible logistical odds, like heat and traffic jams.

In case it jams in combat, it could mean life or death.

You know, I've got two jars of jams and plums... on my pantry shelf.

But other examples are traffic jams, stock market, society and disaster recovery, terrorism and insurgency.

A small market already exists for tropical jams, syrups and other retail tropical fruit products.

And you start having the same kind of traffic jams that you have in the ion channel.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams too. One false move and you're in over your head.

Traffic jams are just a symptom of this challenge, and they're really very, very inconvenient, but that's all they are.

That includes developing and putting in place new means of mass transportation in order to reduce traffic jams and accidents.

Before now, when you thought of a city, you thought of crowded streets, parking problems, traffic jams, queues, noise and fumes.

Today the average American spends about a week a year stuck in traffic jams, and that's a huge waste of time and resources.

I go to the office by car, and I try to leave home as early as I can so that I can avoid the traffic jams.

Many drivers have encountered the situation in which traffic jams took place in tunnels. Some drivers are accustomed to smoking cigarettes in a tunnel to kill time.

Here we're talking about traffic jams, or sometimes detours, or sometimes problems with just the way that things are connected and the way that the brain functions.

I mean, it's a little bit like wearing stilts on stilts, but I have an entirely new relationship to door jams that I never expected I would ever have.

And it shows the Earth in a time flag on the right, in trilobites and dinosaurs and so on and over the triangle, we now get to civilization and TV and traffic jams and so on.

And then we get to the civilization above the little TV set with a gun on it. Then traffic jams, and power systems, and some dots for digital. Where it's going to lead I have no idea.

It's going to really require a national energy policy, frankly for each country, because the solutions in each country are going to be different based upon income levels, traffic jams and also how integrated the systems already are.

It s an unfortunate reality in nearly every major city road congestion, especially during rush hours. Jonas Eliasson reveals how subtly nudging just a small percentage of drivers to stay off major roads can make traffic jams a thing of the past.

189. During the repatriation, the authorities refused to allow some non governmental organizations and vehicles to be on the roads, arguing that the massive presence of motor vehicles had caused traffic jams and prevented the harmonious repatriation of refugees from Zaire in November.

The city, which looked different and strange, impressed me by its ability to change. My days back in Russia were divided between official meetings, hours wasted in traffic jams, and nights spent with old friends who tried to show me the best of Moscow nightlife.

This surprising lack of change is the result of something economists call the rebound effect. It s a phenomenon familiar to urban planners, who long ago discovered that building more roads doesn t ease traffic jams it merely encourages more people to get in their cars and drive.

Do you realize that we could change the capacity of highways by a factor of two or three if we didn't rely on human precision on staying in the lane improve body position and therefore drive a little bit closer together on a little bit narrower lanes, and do away with all traffic jams on highways?

(e) In view of the precarious driving conditions caused by damaged roads, steep terrain and time consuming traffic jams, the staff members driving the vehicles in Port au Prince and in outstations are subject to extraordinary stress and risk that could jeopardize their personal safety and that of their vehicles, as well as result in fatal traffic accidents.

Do you realize that we could change the capacity of highways by a factor of two or three if we didn't rely on human precision on staying in the lane improve body position and therefore drive a little bit closer together on a little bit narrower lanes, and do away with all traffic jams on highways?

With the changes in the import controls on Gaza there is now a list of what cannot be taken in, rather than of what can more goods should arrive. But the ability to buy the jams, muesli, balsamic vinegar, and pots of lemon curd that I saw in an up market Gazan supermarket will not do much for ordinary people, 80 of whom depend on emergency food rations.