Public Transit Lab: UIC Innovation Center
New modes, increasing urban congestion, an influx of data, and rising calls for expanded mobility services and access are forcing cities to reevaluate the way they design and manage the public way.
City Tech's partnership with the University of Illinois at Chicago's Innovation Center
explored how technology can address these and other urban mobility challenges. The nearly year-long project kicked off in Fall 2019 and included a collaborative effort between City Tech, UIC, Bosch, Microsoft, and HERE Technologies
to help students across multiple colleges develop mobility solutions and encourage Chicago residents to prioritize high capacity transit systems as part of their daily journey. The collaboration researched and developed potential pilots using Chicago as a testbed.
The partnership dedicated nearly a year’s worth of human-centered research, user experience testing, and prototyping to help solve these urban challenges. The level of dedicated support from 40 students working in teams of five, and nearly 10 faculty and mentors over 32 weeks resulted in a broad range of deliverables – from research and descriptions of user-behavior, to design development concepts and field-tested prototypes.
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Even Accelerators Need Acceleration: How University Partnerships Boost City Tech's Solution Development Pipeline
Universities are both based in research and evidence, and yet they are also the engines of innovation - making them perfect for City Tech to partner with to understand and advance emerging opportunities for urban solution development.
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Reflecting on the City Tech + UIC Innovation Center Partnership
UIC professors reflect on the year's partnership and students' solutions to public transit challenges.
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City Tech and the University of Illinois at Chicago, working with Bosch, Microsoft, and HERE Technologies, launched the Innovation Center program to explore how technology can address urban mobility challenges.
