The game of traffic lights (TGOTL)

Authors

Faith Chapman, St. Mary's University

Files

Digital Publisher

Digital Commons at St. Mary's University

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Keywords

Computer Science, Traffic, Engineering, Life Simulators

Description

“Computer Science can be applied to nearly ANY field.” In college, and high school especially, the phrase is just that—early comp. sci (CS) students don’t have realworld examples of how/where else they can use CS knowledge outside of CS focused jobs. For high school students, this a missed opportunity to plan for a career outside the obvious. One such career is in traffic lights.

U.S. traffic can be better. Engineering has a subfield dedicated to improving traffic, and part of that entails studying ways to improve traffic lights’ efficacy. Someone with CS knowledge can program a traffic simulator for data collection and virtual experimentation.

TGOTL takes the concept of a traffic simulator and gamifies it. Aimed at high school students, a game medium would catch and keep their interest. Meanwhile, this gives them an example of how CS is used in non-CS fields.

Format

pdf

Size

1 page

City

San Antonio, Texas

Creative Commons License

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