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  1. Driving into the Future (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores possibilities of how future cars will be engineered to less harmful to the environment and safer for the driver, and what might be done to improve the flow of traffic in cities.

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  2. In Safe Hands 1 (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., Free loan

    Goes behind the scenes at London’s Heathrow Airport to show how the air traffic controllers manage the steadily growing number of flights. The controllers describe their work and demonstrate their...

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  3. Your Flight in Their Hands (1993 Video)

    Director
    Richard Vaughan
    Producer
    Chris Haws
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Looks at how air traffic control works and at the revolution in aircraft guidance systems involving satellites, computers and automatic collision-avoidance systems.

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  4. Keeping Your Distance (1993 Video)

    Producer
    John Jaworski
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    You are driving along, unhindered by traffic: how close should you drive to the car in front of you in order to be safe? The programme considers this as a modelling problem and approaches it first with a...

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  5. Finding Better Ways: New Research into Cost-Effective Pavement Repairs (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 19 min., Free loan

    Explains the research goal of the Strategic Highway Research Program, which is to select the best combination of materials and procedures for pavement maintenance, taking into consideration age, schedule,...

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  6. Traffic Noise and Sound Insulation (1977 Film, Video)

    Director
    Keith Z Ord
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows ways to reduce traffic noise in existing buildings.*

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  7. Struggling for Control (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Christopher Riley
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With access to air traffic control facilities around Britain, shows how such operations function and compares these methods and levels of safety with those used in the USA.

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  8. Traffic Futures (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the use of mathematical modelling in transport planning, examining common criticism of transport models - of how they specify the problem, simplify the problem and how the data they use is often...

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  9. Minimum Cost Flows (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Design; Engineering; Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Deals with the problem of predicting flows in networks using mathematical modelling techniques and algorithms. Uses a real-life flow problem, the traffic congestion in Godalmin High Street. Although the...

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  10. Beating the Morning Rush (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Adamyk
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    A case study of transport planning in Milton Keynes, a rapidly changing modern British city. Shows how planners use sophisticated computer-based modelling techniques to calculate traffic flow on roads yet to...

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