Chloe Bates, Software & Transport Engineer has been selected as one of two winners for this year’s CIHT Young Professionals Technology & Innovation Challenge.
As a winner, Chloe has been invited to the Young Professionals conference in Manchester on the 14th November to showcase her entry. The entry will also be published on the CIHT website.
Chloe’s winning entry focused on using technology to reduce the amount of private car usage by increasing the usage of buses & equivalent public transport. The approach is threefold:
- Improve existing bus services with existing technologies such as a unified app with all bus information including (like national rail app for trains), on-boarding notifications of stops and live-data at stops to know when the bus will arrive
- Understand the feasibility & potential benefits of Autonomous Rapid Transit
- Create a mentality of change and make people aware of the impact of their travel choices
Congratulations Chloe! We look forward to your presentation in November!
About the competition
Transport accounts for 20-25% of global Greenhouse Gas Emissions contributing to climate and weather changes and exposing our transport infrastructure to challenging conditions. The 2018 IPCC report cements this and finds that we need to limit global warming to 1.5°C below pre-industrial levels to avoid severe effects on “”health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth.”
In urban areas transport causes severe air pollution which in turn have serious implications for the health of populations. In the UK alone, long term exposure to man-made air pollution has an annual effect equivalent to between 28,000 and 40,000 deaths and the cost of air pollution to the UK is estimated to be more than £20bn a year. Solving these linked issues is a global task, the challenge is to identify: How can technology help us solve the climate and air quality problems and how the transportation sector can create a sustainable future.
Solving these linked issues is a global task, the challenge is to identify: How can technology help us solve the climate and air quality problems and how the transportation sector can create a sustainable future?