Your friend says that one way to improve air quality in a city is to have traffic lights synchronized so that motorists can travel long distances at constant speed. What physics principle supports this claim?

Your friend says that one way to improve air quality in a city is to have traffic lights synchronized so that motorists can travel long distances at constant speed. What physics principle supports this claim?

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