# Google Research — The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-07-07T16:42:08+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1325-the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion

Google Research published a study in Nature Cities showing that coordinating a small fraction of trips via navigation apps can improve traffic speeds and reduce emissions across entire cities.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/:

> In “Urban congestion relief experiments through routing-app interventions”, published in Nature Cities, we present the first large-scale, real-world study into the use of navigation platforms to improve traffic.

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