TransLink seeks engineers’ ideas for addressing COVID-19

TransLink, Metro Vancouver’s public transit authority, is seeking ideas from Canada’s engineering community for improving health, safety and public trust while welcoming customers back in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

With this year’s edition of TransLink’s annual Open Call for Innovation, the organization especially wants to hear about such ideas as:

• enhancing sanitization and ventilation throughout the public transit system.
• supporting physical distancing while efficiently managing passenger flow through facilities and vehicles.
• modifying physical spaces, hardware and amenities to reduce the risk of viral transmission.

If a submission is accepted, TransLink offers co-funding and other support to help further develop the idea, including access to its own assets for testing and demonstration purposes and even the opportunity to ‘pilot’ an idea on a larger scale through a partnership arrangement.

The deadline for submissions is Oct. 22. For more information, click here.