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Smart traffic lights

Find waiting at an empty intersection annoying?

Your driving frustrations may soon be relieved, if city planners adopt a new self-organizing system for traffic lights.

European engineers have designed and tested a system that would give each traffic signal a sensor, to read the current traffic situation, and a computer chip, to calculate the expected flow of vehicles and then determine how long the light should stay green.

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Gautrain may face delay as underground water poses technical challenge

Construction on the Gautrain project has hit a technical snag in the tunnel section from the Rosebank station to Park station, in Johannesburg.

Gautrain Management Agency CEO and project leader Jack van der Merwe says this last leg of the 80 km route has more underground water than the project team anticipated.

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SAWomEng@network will host its first set of workshops in November. Ideally geared at young graduates in the engineering industry, this year, they aim to tackle Ethical Leadership and the contribution engineers make to ethical leadership and decision making. For further details visit www.sawomeng.org.za

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Dr Michelle Kruger

Michelle studied civil engineering and specialises in water treatment. She works as an Associate Director at CSVwater where she is in charge of various waste water treatment projects.  Read more about Michelle’s world here or visit www.csvwater.co.za or www.cesa.co.za.

 

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Today's fastest supercomputers will eventually be left in the (very) slow lane, computer engineers say. Future quantum computers, which work by manipulating atoms and molecules, will be millions of times faster than anything available today.