On Saturday, February 24, 2024, Dan Thornton, TRG Senior Associate, attended and judged the 2nd Annual York College of Pennsylvania (YCP) Engineering Design Competition. The task for this years competition was to design a transportation solution for cities. The teams of college students had from 11AM to 6PM to come up with the transportation solutions. Some of the transportation solutions included:
• Software integrated into cars that would alert motorists of pedestrians in crosswalks.
• Preemption for emergency vehicles where a central computer system would assist in providing green time to the emergency vehicle approaches.
• A standardized transit bus that would potentially incorporate face recognition or a quick scan feature to help speed up boarding similar to EZ-Pass
• Raised intersections that separate vehicles and bikes/peds to encourage and provide safety for bikes and pedestrians.
