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Semi-Finalist Evaluation
Judges'' comments
SUBJECT: Your proposal in the Climate CoLab
Proposal: QR code point of sale payment system for short urban public transport service
Contest: Transportation
Thank you for your contest entry. We appreciate your willingness to share your ideas and also the time and effort you put into developing a proposal and submitting it to the contest.
We, the Judges, have strongly considered your proposal and found that it contained intriguing elements; however, we have chosen to not advance it to the next round of competition.
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2015 Climate CoLab Judges
The proposal needs to be elaborated in much greater depth. There are already numerous card-based payment methods, whether dedicated smart cards, debit cards, etc. The author would need to provide more detail with respect to cost, implementation, etc. relative to existing carb-based transactions.
Developing a QR system for ticket issuance for public transport is a possible option for increasing ease of access to public transport. Nevertheless, it is really not directly related to emissions from the transportation system and the proposal does not really provide a convincing reasoning for the 5% estimate.
Will people switch from their cars to metro because of the QR system? I find this really really difficult to justify and the author provides no thinking behind such an assertion.
The presentation of the proposal is also not very strong given that neither the system operations nor the development work and requirements from users are presented in any detail.
While we agree that more user friendly public transport is likely to increase its appeal, and therefore take some private automobile traffic off the road, this needs to be examined a lot more closely, especially in the Indian context specifically, which we would imagine is quite different to cities like London, where the Oyster card is used.
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