Google.org Funds Artificial Intelligence for Public Transport
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Google.org gave money on 15 September 2026.
- A2
Google.org gave 2.1 million dollars on 15 September 2026.
- B1
On 15 September 2026, Google.org announced a 2.1 million dollar grant for the MIT Transit Lab.
- B2
On 15 September 2026, Google.org announced a 2.1 million dollar grant for the MIT Transit Lab.
- C1
Navigating complex situations in public transport control centres is a demanding task.
- C2
Navigating complex situations in public transport control centres is an intricate task, primarily because these facilities rely on fragmented data from various screens and radios.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- grant
- An amount of money given by an organization or government for a special purpose.
- fund
- To provide the money to pay for an event, activity, or organization.
- involve
- To include someone or something as an important part of an activity.
- combine
- To join together to make a single thing or group.
- automate
- To make a process operate by machines or computers in order to reduce the work done by humans.
- demonstrate
- To show or prove something clearly.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.