Y4PT Transport Hackathon series

After the success of the first three (3) editions of the Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon series in Montreal 2017 (Canada), Dubai 2018 (United Arab Emirates) and Stockholm 2019 (Sweden), the Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT) Foundation, with the support of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), its members and other stakeholders, and following the long-standing tradition of Y4PT Youth Lab series, is promoting the organization of local transport hackathons around the world during the 2019-2023 season, by combining the best of boundless human creativity and the benefits of current information and communications technologies (ICTs) in collaborative environments, with the aim of advancing transport sector towards sustainability.

Winners from each local transport hackathon will join other Spain-based hackers at the 4th Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon Barcelona 2023 (https://www.y4pt.org/projects/hackathon) in the framework of the 64th UITP Global Public Transport Summit Barcelona 2023 – the world’s oldest, largest and leading sustainable transport event – to contest in a final round for unveiling the world’s best ground-breaking transport solutions.

Many cities around the world are hosting the first local transport hackathons. Other cities are also welcome to join.

Different local stakeholders such as universities, youth groups, ICT companies, transport operators, authorities, start-up mentors and hackers are called to collaborate with Y4PT and to be part of the next editions of the world’s first-ever global transport hackathon and the world’s top leading transport innovation contest, acknowledged by the European Mobility Week Secretariat (European Union) as one of the best practices of 2017.

Everyone is invited to get on board. This is an one-off opportunity to show to your audience and users how important is for you to support this kind of events where innovation and creativity is putting forward new ICT-related solutions to boost both the private sector business performance and the public sector policy efficacy, and thus to unlock new opportunities to expand, diversify and renew your organization’s portfolio of products and services.