curiousChallenge Explorer
Transportationbeginner~20 mins

Create a solution that encourages students to use sustainable transportation.

Walking, cycling and buses are greener and healthier, but cars are the default.

Real-world context

Walking, cycling and buses are greener and healthier, but cars are the default. Shifting student travel habits needs to make the sustainable choice the easy and appealing one.

The challenge

Create a solution that encourages students to use sustainable transportation. Study who is affected, dig past the obvious symptoms to the real root causes, and design a solution that could actually work in the real world. There is no single correct answer — what matters is the quality of your thinking, the stakeholders you consider, and how clearly you justify your chosen direction.

Reflection prompts

  • Who is most affected by this problem, and how did you account for them?
  • What is the single biggest risk to your solution working?
  • Which assumption, if wrong, would break your whole idea?