After the success of the first two editions of the Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon series in Montreal 2017 and Dubai 2018, 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 2018-2019 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 Sweden-based hackers at the 3rd Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon Stockholm 2019 ( http://www.y4pt.org/projects/hackathon ) in the framework of the 63rd UITP Global Public Transport Summit Stockholm 2019 – 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.