Young Smart Cities Learning Situation on:
MOBILITY – Rethinking the Daily Commute
KNOWLEDGE PILLS relevant to this SMART theme are:
Driving Question
How can we redesign the daily commute to school to make it cleaner, safer and more sustainable for everyone?
Learning Situation
Many municipalities report growing concerns linked to school mobility. During morning and afternoon peak hours, heavy car traffic creates bottlenecks around school entrances, increasing air pollution, reducing visibility and making streets unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists. In some areas, public transport may not be frequent or reliable enough, and safe cycling or walking routes are missing or poorly maintained.
To address these issues, the municipality has launched a call for ideas, inviting students to examine their own travel experiences, identify local challenges and propose practical improvements that make everyday journeys safer, more efficient and environmentally friendly.
Task
Explore mobility in your local community and examine how the daily commute to school could be improved to make it cleaner, safer and more sustainable. Working in groups, choose one route, area or mobility challenge and develop a clear, evidence-based proposal that answers the Driving Question. Your ideas should be realistic, meaningful and rooted in local needs.
Make sure you follow an enquiry-based approach so your proposal is grounded in solid, evidence-based reasoning. You will move through these stages:
Explore → Research → Analyse → Ideate → Present → Reflect