Smarter traffic lights have been on the agenda of authorities worldwide for many years, but few managed to find the right recipe to eliminate traffic jams. University of Michigan researchers ...

Ever wonder how that GPS chip in your cell phone or personal navigation device or some other gizmo used by your field workers actually knows how to find the orbiting satellites and grab their ...

Most of us never reach for a map while driving anymore, nor are we printing directions before a family trip. We navigate with our phones, guided by the pinpoint accuracy of GPS. It gets us to vacation ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

Strong GPS signals are required to navigate with electronic maps while driving in the city. For driverless cars, this is especially important. Now, researchers have figured out how to make GPS ...