Can urban traffic jams be solved like internet traffic jams?

The idea hit Prabhakar in December, 2007, when he was late for a meeting and “stuck in the mother of all traffic jams,” he recounted to Business Insider. It occurred to him that street traffic and internet traffic are the same problem, too many people trying to get to the same place at once. He had helped solve internet congestion, could he do the same for real live traffic?