How Much Does a Traffic Jam Cost?

got the idea for this project when I was obviously stuck in a traffic jam. I began to first wonder why no one bothered to help push the stalled car off the road. Second I began to wonder why the city doesn’t come out and tow the problem vehicle and avoid the headache of having intersections blocked by cars that got caught by the gridlock ahead.

Keeping that in mind I started to come up with an estimate of how much it would cost the city to simple move the vehicle vs. the time and money wasted by the people affected by the delay.

Gas costing what it does and lets not forget that time is money. So I came up with this little calculator that takes the fuel cost, the time it took to get though the traffic jam, as well as the length, and how many lanes of traffic were effected. Take that figure out how many sets (time to get thought divided by total time of the traffic jam) get thought and that should give you a total average cost of the traffic Jam.

I did make some speculations such as the average car being about 14 feet long and being about 3 feet from the next car in front of it.

The average wage numbers came in my case from Stats Canada.

The information collected on this site will possibly go towards a national average or total cost of all traffic jams entered in the site.

Traffic Jam Calculator

Spoke Calculator 2.5

Its been a long time since i updated my Spoke Calculator, i have actually had the new version working for some time but lacked the necessary time to get things tested and updated.

So the time has come.

whats new?

Improved Code.
I added the ability to add rims and hubs to groups in bulk, so no more one at a time! i got tired my self of grouping 1000s of pieces of information.
Refreshed the design.
Accordion sorting in the Get info section for calculations.
Refined the search field to be more intelligent.
Improved the manage page and how you can sort information.

Demo Spoke Calculator Pro

If you like this script, please help support it by making a donation.

Address Book 2.5

I have updated the Address Book script it has a new header, better Google Maps API integration, e-mail support for single and group contacts. there has also been a number of bug fixes and links updated, i also trimmed the code a bit, i made some improvements as well as added more comments to the code so people can make changes a bit easier. Have a look at the changes made or the installation instructions. This scrip has and continues to undergo changes based on the input from its users, so please keep giving me feed back or feature requests. Features:

• Free
• Dynamic Content
• GD2 Thumbnails
• Google Maps API
• Email Single or Group contacts
• Printer friendly
• User Login with SHA1 encryption
• Change Password and User name
• XHTML and CSS2 Standards
• Search Database
• Sort by Groups
• CSV Backup
• V-Card Export
• Dashboard

Screen Shots:
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Addressbook v2

This version of Address book has been completely redesigned and has had many functional improvements made, including better security, and installation. You can now view your contacts in Google Maps. Contacts can also be sorted in groups to make it easier to manage lots of contacts.

Previous version

Features:

• Free
• Dynamic Content
• GD2 Thumbnails
• Google Maps API
• Email Single or Group contacts
• Printer friendly
• User Login with MD2 encryption
• Change Password and User name
• XHTML and CSS2 Standards
• Search Database
• Sort by Groups
• CSV Backup
• V-Card Export
• Dashboard

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Php Installer Script

I made this script for people that are working on there own scripts. When i created Spoke Calculator Pro and Addressbook i soon thought it would be a good idea to include a way for the user to simply install the scripts with little know how of any sort of MySQL knowledge. I gathered the basic principle from the Word Press instillation, although they are different in coding and function.

Features:

• Automatically Create a congig.php file.
• Test to see if config.php exists
• Insert MySQL automatically

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Spoke Calculator Pro

PHP spoke calculator is a free program for shop or personal use. I have included many features that i have not scene in any other widely available spoke calculator. It is good to note that the more accurate your measurements are the more accurate the final spoke length will be.

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