PickVidsBest Transit, cities & urban planning Videos
The 174 Transit, cities & urban planning videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 1 intermediate, 168 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Not Just Bikes, BicycleDutch, Wendover Productions.
China's Bonkers Bike-share Bubble
An Asianometry documentary-style video on the rise and collapse of China's dockless bike-share boom.
Electric Vehicle Charging Technology: Urban Electric - Pop-Up Charger | Fully Charged
A Fully Charged episode where Robert Llewellyn visits an Oxford street trialling Urban Electric's pop-up chargers.
Slime mold form a map of the Tokyo-area railway system
A one-minute clip of slime mold placed on a map with food at the cities around Tokyo, growing a network that approximates the Tokyo-area railway system.
Lies on the London Underground
Tom Scott and Matt Parker investigate some of the small deceptions and oddities of the London Underground, such as misleading signage and map distortions.
Introducing the self-driving bicycle in the Netherlands
Google Netherlands' April Fools' 2016 video presents a fictional self-driving bicycle for Amsterdam, framed as a serious product launch.
Millions of SUV, trucks have dangerous front blind zone
A local TV news investigation showing that many SUVs and trucks have a large blind zone directly in front, hiding children from the driver.
Why Can't We Have Nice Things with Ezra Klein | The Weekly Show
Jon Stewart interviews Ezra Klein about his book Abundance and why progressive goals get stuck in procedure and regulation.
A Meditation On The Speed Limit
A three-minute student film from Campus MovieFest showing drivers in every lane holding exactly the speed limit on an Atlanta-area interstate and the traffic jam that results.
Race The Tube - Sprint
A two-minute video of an athlete sprinting against a London Underground Circle Line train between Mansion House and Cannon Street.
India Driving
A short 2006 clip of chaotic traffic in India, with cars, bikes and pedestrians weaving around each other and one car going against the flow.
Hazard perception test 2026: official DVSA guide
The UK DVSA's one-minute guide to the hazard perception part of the driving theory test, covering when to click and how to score well.
Meskel Square, Addis Abeba
A short clip of Meskel Square in Addis Ababa, a busy crossroads where vehicles and pedestrians mix with few apparent rules.
The Only* Car-Free Neighbourhood in Canada (and why you can't live there)
Not Just Bikes visits the Toronto Islands, home to Canada's only car-free neighbourhood.
This Town Did The Impossible
A look at Le Plessis-Robinson, a French suburb transformed from modernist urbanism into traditional mixed-use fabric with local-style architecture, green space and a more balanced housing supply.
Simpsons - Monorail Song
The Monorail song scene from The Simpsons, uploaded with a note comparing it to a local Australian development controversy.
Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
A short Vox video on Barcelona's superblocks, an urban design approach that closes interior streets to through traffic to return space to pedestrians.
The highway where trucks work like electric trains
Tom Scott visits an eHighway test in Lubeck, Germany, where electric trucks with pantographs draw power from overhead wires.
The Best Kind of Dutch Cycling Infrastructure
Not Just Bikes explains Dutch bicycle-only roads, which let people travel long distances in and out of cities with almost no car interaction.
Bike Lanes by Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat's early viral short in which he gets ticketed for not using a bike lane in New York, then shows how often the lanes are blocked by cars and other obstacles.
Why Traffic Congestion Grows Exponentially, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It // An Explainer
CityNerd explains why traffic congestion grows nonlinearly as more cars use a road network, and why adding road capacity tends not to fix it.
How a Diesel-Electric Locomotive Works
A 3D-animated walkthrough of a heavy-haul diesel-electric freight locomotive, covering the frame, coupling, draft gear, engine and drive systems.
The Tube Map nearly looked very different
Map Men's Jay Foreman tells the story of how the London Tube map nearly looked very different, including Harry Beck's design and TfL's initial rejection of it.
Crazy Paris Traffic
A one-minute clip filmed from the Arc de Triomphe showing chaotic multi-lane traffic in the surrounding roundabout, including a bus trying to cross about six lanes.
Julie knew her killer - seatbelt road safety advert
A one-minute UK road safety advert showing a family car crash in which an unbelted rear passenger kills his mother in a head-on collision.