Within the minor Advanced Mobility, 15 students from the Automotive Engineering, Embedded Systems, Civil Engineering and ICT degree courses are working on the project A12 Smart Travel.

The assignment is to deliver a product that can be used during the introduction period for the academic year 2022/23 to motivate (future) students and employees to adjust their travel behaviour, so that traffic jams on the A12 can be reduced sustainably.

In pairs, the students set to work to analyse the problem. Technological solutions are plentiful, but which ones can be applied? Therefore, the students first wanted to fully understand the causes of traffic jams and the behaviour of people on the road.

Podcast as possible solution
Devin Isiklar, 4th-year student Automotive and Dannick Punte, 3rd-year student Embedded Systems see a podcast as a possible solution, because you can quickly reach many people with it. “Podcasts are becoming more and more popular,” says Devin. “For the podcasts, we interview students, employees of the HAN and also external specialists in the field of mobility. We want to give the listener experiences and very practical and workable information in a short amount of time, so that he or she has a better understanding of what alternative solutions are available in the field of mobility.” Devin and Dannick aim to record a podcast every week and broadcast it via Spotify. Their first podcast is about carpooling.

Source: Tech Gelderland
Photography: Gerard Burgers