Optimising Transport Networks for School Kids

School transport represents one of our most complex daily logistics challenges, affecting millions of families across Australia. Australia's public school transport system faces mounting pressure from population growth, urban sprawl and increasingly complex transport paths for students and families.
Transport information is one of the richest sources of data, both from government and real-time sources of public transport and real-time traffic maps. However, there is very little specialisation and focus on the student experience of public transport, and often transport solutions only aim to fix existing problems rather than anticipate or consider changes in education, communities and transportation in the future.

We would like you to develop new insights and/or solutions focused on innovative and intelligent data usage to make student transport faster, safer and more flexible.
Specifically, how can we solve current problems like:
- Road and transport safety for kids
- Improving school drop off congestion
- Promoting alternative and non-vehicle methods of transport
- Improving how working parents can balance work with transport responsibilities

You are also encouraged to consider or predict future trends, such as how schooling is delivered, transport patterns and programs like light rail or Park&Ride, and other societal changes.
This will enable planners to directly shape future transport links and services for students in the ACT and other jurisdictions.

Contestants must use at least one source of government data. We are open to contestants solving this problem for ACT using ACT data or data from other jurisdictions or geographies.
Contestants are also strongly encouraged to incorporate graph-based analyses where possible.
Submissions will be scored by our judging panel of representatives from Vivanti, Transport ACT and the Heart Foundation, on the basis of their:
- Real-world feasibility
- Positive human impact
- Use of technology
- Creative flair