curiousChallenge Explorer
Transportationadvanced~50 mins

Design the transportation network of a future smart city.

A future city's mobility could be seamless, shared and clean — or a tangle of competing tech.

Real-world context

A future city's mobility could be seamless, shared and clean — or a tangle of competing tech. Designing the whole network as one human-centered system is the challenge.

The challenge

Design the transportation network of a future smart city. 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?