Instructional Video1:05
Next Animation Studio

MIT researchers publish study on traffic-light-free 'smart intersection'

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers at MIT have published a study outlining the basis for a potential traffic-light-free transportation design that, if developed, could allow twice as many cars to travel smoothly on the road.
Instructional Video2:21
Language Tree

Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 2

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners focuses on formal and informal presentation skills: Providing information to friends, using eye contact, presenting a familiar topic, informal or formal presentation language based on the setting.
Podcast4:14
KERA

Flying Cars Coming in 2020

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Recently, Uber announced plans to use new technology to create flying cars which will be ready for demonstration by 2020. Rather than picturing a car from a science fiction story, imagine a vehicle that looks more like a helicopter. In...
Instructional Video5:53
Curated Video

The Vietnam War, The End, 1975

Higher Ed
After 30 years of civil war, finally North Vietnam captures South Vietnam and makes a unified country ruled by its communist rulers till present time.
Instructional Video7:01
Sustainable Business Consulting

Logistics Case Studies

Higher Ed
Case studies of companies saving money through changing shipping routes, using technology and behavior change
Instructional Video1:08
Next Animation Studio

Hollywood’s cougars set to get their own break-out bridge

12th - Higher Ed
Trapped between encircling highways, L.A.’s mountain lions need a life-saving crossing to break out of a shrinking gene pool.
Instructional Video0:58
Next Animation Studio

Japanese technology project to ease traffic jams in India

12th - Higher Ed
A new intelligent transportation system will be installed in Bangalore, India in order control and reduce traffic jams throughout the city.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 7: Mission Accomplished

9th - 10th
Students celebrate by watching the traffic flow smoothly at their intersection and reflect on the role computers play in helping to solve complex problems. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [1:53]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 6: Run a Simulation

9th - 10th
Students utilize a computer simulation to help solve their problem of traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:55]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 5: Make a Model

9th - 10th
Students process and analyze data on traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:31]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 3: Brainstorm

9th - 10th
Students meet Dave Musicant, a computer science professor and explain that they want to try to reduce the amount of time they spend waiting at red lights at the intersection by their school. [3 min, 1 sec]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 2: Straight to the Source

9th - 10th
Students visit their city's traffic management center, tour the traffic signal control room and meet with Nick Van Gunst, a traffic engineer who shows them that the city's traffic light system is controlled by computers. They learn that...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Traffic

9th - 10th
Are you a late merger? You might be on to something. Ira speaks with Tom Vanderbilt, author of 'Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)' about the psychology and engineering found where the rubber meets the road.