Team Tres, comprising Hugh Fergusson, Ali Medina, Francisco Vicuna, Juan Diego Cordero and Nina Ebel, created a policy model to use recycled organic waste to power vehicles in a clean, sustainable way. Tres plan to add food waste receptacles in buses to create green energy to fuel sustainable transport in cities.
The groups also plans to partner with local restaurants and supermarkets to pick up their food waste or nearly expired products, at low-volume periods of the day (so as not to reduce capacity), to redistribute still edible food to shelters for those in need.
Participants in the hackathon, organised by Youth for Public Transport (Y4PT), were posed the question “how are we going to change the world, one of your ideas at a time?”
Over there days before the opening of the summit, 13 projects were developed and pitched to a panel of judges, before the winners were announced during the summit’s opening ceremony.
Second place was awarded to BLI, which presented a safety vest which provides navigation assistance for cyclists or those travelling by e-scooters.
The user connects their smartphone to the vest and chooses their destination. The vest then guides the user to their final destination, and uses signalling lights so that other vehicles in the area are aware of where the user is headed.
The vest also has an emergency feature for accidents. If the user crashes, the vest sets off an alarm and visible signal, in case the user has fallen out of sight. Emergency services are contacted if the user is not responsive.
Third place was awarded to Compal, an on-demand ride-sharing system created specifically to solve the issue of traveling from an airport in a foreign country. The user downloads the mobile app, fills in their needs, how many people they wants to share the ride with, chooses the final destination and puts in a price preference, and is then provided with solutions.
The app also promotes sustainable travel by showing the user how many CO2 emissions each journey would produce so that users can make conscious choices. The app matches your profile with other users based on various aspects such as occupation to promote networking. Payments can also be made through blockchain.
