Code for Transportation

Vihaan Joshi | USA Many wheelchair users, people with walkers, and the elderly cross at half the speed of normal walkers. The traffic light has no idea they are there. The lights countdown to hand the road back to the traffic. Yet, according to studies, pedestrians over the age of 65 are twice as likely to be killed per crossing as those who are younger. The pedestrian button also does not help the traffic light as it only indicates that somebody is over there waiting, not fo

BuzzTeam | USA When a crash, snow, or sudden failure knocks out a bus or train line, transit agencies come up with inefficient detours, causing riders to lose access to clinics, schools, and grocery stores. This affects everyone, but especially older people, students, and riders with disabilities who depend on a single transit line to stay connected to their daily life. LIFELINE is an interactive web application built on GTFS timetable data that lets anyone check a city's tra

Safe Routes | USA Between 2020 and 2024, 1,838 children aged 10 to 18 were robbed on the streets of Los Angeles, and 1,026 of those robberies happened during school commute hours. That is 56% of them inside five hours of the day, on blocks the city already publishes in its open data. No map app routes around them. Ours does. You pick a school, type your address, and get three routes with the reasoning written out: skips 552 m of South Fairfax Avenue, which scores 65 at this h