Description: The Transportation Song by Peter Weatherall -- let's get thinking about all the different ways and means of transportation!
U.S. History: Industrial America (iCue) Description: The industrial revolution forever changed how and why goods and people get to where they are going. These videos include histories of factory production, U.S. immigration, and some of the transportation innovations that accompanied these.
Expansion and Development of Western Railroads (iCue) Description: Historian Stephen Ambrose says that the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1868 was the greatest achievement of the 19th century
Description: Ever wonder about the evolution of transportation over time in America? This student-created video outlines the changes in transportation that developed in one example state: Michigan
Environmental Science: Human Population (iCue) Description: Use these videos to explore how human population grows, adapts, and interacts with our environments. These clips will help you better understand why our current systems of habitation and transportation have developed, as well as possible reasons for why they may need to change.
Description: What is suburbia? How has it impacted our transportation needs and methods?
Description: This video introduces important ideas related to urban planning. As you watch, think about the possible answers to these questions: What is urban sprawl? What is urban planning? How are urban planning and transportation connected?
Dynamic Workplaces on Demand (ResearchChannel) Description: How could e-learning and e-business environments affect transportation? This video talks about how dynamic workplaces are designed to help companies decrease costs, boost efficiencies and fundamentally alter the way their people work. IBM has been on a path to digitize most manual processes—HR, procurement, learning and travel—and the impact on how people work has been profound.
Description: What kind of jobs and responsibilities can be included in transportation? This video explores careers and importance of roles in the Pacific Northwest transportation hub of Spokane, WA
Description: How do goods made in one country travel internationally to another? For centuries, the answer has been due to ships and ports. This video explores the modern cargo shipping techniques technologies at the Port of Oakland.
Description: Ever wonder what working in international shipping requires? This video shows the types of careers and responsibilities included in shipping.
Smarter Roads, Smarter Drivers (ResearchChannel) Description: From the type of pavement or lighting, to the weather or that cell phone in your hands, hundreds of factors figure into your safety on the road. Virginia Tech's Transportation Institute is looking at dozens of ways to make highway travel safer.
T-Commerce (ResearchChannel) Description: Discussions with experts in air traffic and congestion about a revolutionary new air transportation system, a system that may initiate the beginning of a new field known as 'T-Commerce.'
The UrbanSim Project (ResearchChannel)
(there is also an older version)
Description: Can a computer simulation program help predict how urban communities will grow and evolve? Alan Borning at University of Washington explains the 'UrbanSim' model they have created to help predict for and plan urban communities. This video will help you understand some of the factors that affect why we live where we do... which greatly affects transportation.