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Message: Traffic Without Control There is a buzz in the environmental press that so-called “modern” traffic systems that rely on red, yellow, and green lights, are not as efficient as they seem. A small town in Holland, Drachten, removed most of its traffic signals replacing them with roundabouts and smaller intersections. That decision resulted in fewer dangerous crashes and more bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Anyone who has travelled to the world’s less developed nations knows that automobile traffic there, while chaotic by north american standards can, in fact, do a better job of moving millions while reducing all that wasted fuel consumed idling at stop lights. Don’t believe us? Here is proof. This video from India illustrates how traffic systems can be self-organizing and efficient even if the results look like an experiment in chaos theory. I doubt if Toronto’s modern traffic control system could manage the throughput that this “control-less” T intersection achieves: www.corporateknightsforum.com