A research team at IMDEA Networks Institute have developed a coordination system called Cord-Approx strategy that significantly cuts the time drivers spend searching for on-street parking. The study “Reducing Street Parking Search Time via Smart Assignment Strategies” tested the approach in detailed simulations of Madrid using a real traffic dataset. On average, drivers using Cord-Approx strategy found a parking spot in 6.7 minutes, compared to almost 20 minutes without it. The paper has been accepted and will be presented at ACM SIGSPATIAL’05, a flagship venue for data-driven research for smart-cities and other environments.

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6 October 2025/Kiel. The Southern Ocean around Antarctica plays a decisive role in the global carbon cycle – and thus in the climate system. This is supported by a new study involving the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, published today in Nature Communications. An international team has demonstrated that between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, a stronger layering of the Southern Ocean prevented carbon dioxide from rising from the deep ocean into the atmosphere. As a result, temperatures were significantly lower than in later warm periods.