Citizen, Teaching, Industry, Cities for Future Mobility

Do you want to know what is MAPPO (MAP+APP+POllution)?

The idea comes from a group of 10 final year undergraduate students in the area of Telecommunication Engineering, not related to urban mobility, automotive or environmental studies that were proposed a challenge to develop a product/service related to urban mobility and the environment in the city with the following requirements: 

·     To estimate the exposure to pollutants while moving around the city in their daily life, especially when going to school;

·     To raise awareness among young people aged 15-23 about the equivalent carbon footprint caused by the means of transport they use;

·     Finally, to use knowledge from their own studies as a way of seeing that urban mobility is a cross-cutting field to which many different fields of knowledge can contribute.

As a product they have decided to create an app that shows three alternative routes to get from one place to another in the cities of Barcelona, Terrassa and other cities near Barcelona, i. e. the shortest route, the least polluted route and a and a proposal halfway between the two others.

The app also shows the carbon footprint generated according to the chosen route and mode of transport. The app contains projections of carbon footprint estimates from 1 to 5 years.

Finally, a ranking, as a game between friends, from the same school or the same community, who compete against each other to lead the ranking and see who is the "champion" that generates the least emissions in their mobility.

 Currently, the students are in the last period to finish MAPPO and would like to present their solution and receive feedback from other students, teachers, high school students and citizens in general to improve their solution