Youth for Public Transport (Y4PT) is a Belgium-based
international youth-led pro-sustainable-mobility
non-profit non-governmental organization (iNGO) created by
the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) –
www.uitp.org – acting as its “Parent Organization” and
sustained by the Roads and Transport Authority of the
Emirate of Dubai (RTA Dubai) and Ferrovie Nord Milano
(FNM) S.p.A. – www.fnmgroup.it – acting as its “Honorary
Founding Members”.
Y4PT’s aim is to promote the active participation of young
people on transport and mobility issues at all levels, and
settings since young people are one of the most
significant groups of public transport users and will
inherit the outcomes of all key decisions taken today.
Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT) Foundation, with the
support of the International Association of Public
Transport (UITP) and its members, and following the
long-standing tradition of Y4PT Youth Lab series, is
promoting the organization of local transport hackathons
around the world, 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 hackathons joined other
Canada-based hackers at the 1st Y4PT Global Transport
Hackathon Montreal 2017 in the framework of the 62nd UITP
Global Public Transport Summit Montreal 2017 – the world’s
oldest and leading sustainable transport event – to
contest in a final round for unveiling the world’s best
ground-breaking transport solutions.
Our company Inellipse as winner of the local hackathon in
Macedonia, Skopje Bus Hackathon, with the innovative idea
for software platform that provides optimization of
passenger numbers in relevant bus lines took part in the
event. Our Igor Georgioski was part of the winning team.
Check out how much fun he had.
Prior the event Mr. Georgioski gave his view on innovative
solutions to transport problems and the future of public
transport.
“A hackathon is a productive environment where everybody’s
focus is on rapidly turning one’s vision into an
actionable solution. It is fun, and the risk and fear of
failure is low, thus giving developers a completely
different perspective on programming than the one we have
during working hours”, said Igor Georgioski, winner of the
Skopje, Macedonia hackathon.
Mr Georgioski was part of the Loyal Green team, who
developed a cloud-based app that encourages carpooling,
rewarding users with discounts to events and services. The
app also provides up-to-date transport data, including bus
timetables and route information, with the overall
intention on reducing traffic congestion in Skopje.
“Public transport plays an important role in our lives.
Our app encourages people to leave their cars at home,
thus reducing air pollution and improving parking
problems, issues which are major problems in Skopje.
People should be rewarded for using public transport,
which is what our app does”, said Mr Georgioski.
Asked to describe his vision of the future of public
transport, Mr Georgioski responded, “I’d like to see
crazy-fast public transport, like the Hyperloop One, that
run on electricity, and drones that will carry people!”