How do you make police aware of their own carbon emissions?
Automotive Engineering students of HAN University developing an app with the working name ‘EmitO’ share their findings with the Dutch police as clients. They have a cosy chat about that.
The police came up with the assignment for students asking how to reduce the number of parking spaces. But why did the police want this? It turned out that the police were tasked with drastically reducing CO2 emissions. This means you have to go more about making someone aware of their own CO2 emissions and understand the urgency to change their own behaviour.
Richard van Damme, policy advisor at the national police in the Netherlands: “At the police, like other organisations, we have parking problems at various locations. Moreover, 60% of the police’s C02 emissions come from mobility. Therefore, we want to introduce employees to a different way of mobility.”
A very fun and current topic that Automotive Engineering students in their 6th semester are currently working on together with teacher researchers and an external client who comes up with a current problem statement and also participates in the project. They are looking into the question: how can we solve the police parking problem and how can we roll out that solution on a national scale?
That changing behaviour may be the ultimate outcome. The app EmitO developed by the students shows how much CO2 you emit. Less emissions are then rewarded with incentives (think gift card, for example).
Students will present their initial findings during the lunch event ‘GRIP on sustainable mobility’ on Monday 13 March 2023. Watch this video:
Source: HAN
Photography: Paul Claessen