COLUMBUS, Ohio—Hopping in the car for a late summer road trip around the Buckeye State? Don’t forget your free road map, courtesy of the Ohio Department of Transportation. ODOT is now ...

bills itself as "your official source for real-time Ohio traffic updates." Through it, users can find live traffic updates, including a map that shows where wrecks and traffic backups are happening.

With both of these, after a 35-mile Philadelphia bypass links them, the Ohio Turnpike will provide a super-highway route (see map) enabling motorists to drive all the way from Hartford ...