Incentives for Drivers Who Avoid Traffic Jams (Published 2012)

PALO ALTO, Calif. — London, Singapore, Stockholm and a few other cities around the world battle heavy traffic with a “congestion charge,” a stiff fee for driving in crowded areas at peak hours. But drivers generally hate the idea, and efforts to impose it in this country have failed. Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of computer science at Stanford University, thinks he has a better way. A few years a