Mobility-on-Demand

This summer, the second annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize was awarded to a group of seven students from the MIT Media Lab for their project ''Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility on Demand'. Their initiative involves a network of fold-able scooters, bicycles and cars made available throughout the city as rentals for urban citizens. These lightweight electric vehicles would help relieve traffic congestion and city pollution while saving energy and space. Users would pick up a car with a swipe of a credit card, drive it their destination and then park it on on stackable recharging rack--leaving it ready for the next driver.

The jury statement applauded the team on their radical change being proposed based upon a simple re-evoluation of "the old ways of doing things".

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards a "$100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems."

For more info on "Mobility on Demand" go to: http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/489#