Transport 4 All Challenge Stage-2

November 9, 2022

Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry launched the “Transport 4 All Challenge” Stage-2 recently.

The “Transport 4 All Challenge” is an initiative implemented by the Union Urban Affairs Ministry to ease the mobility experience of Indian citizens.
The challenge seeks to promote digital innovation in formal as well as informal public transportation.
The challenge has 3 stages. They are:

Problem Identification: Cities, with assistance from non-governmental organizations, must identify key recurring problems that citizens and public transport operators face.
Solution Generation: Prototypes must be developed by startups to improve public transport based on the inputs provided by cities and NGOs
Pilot Testing: Cities must support Startups to implement large-scale pilots and refining the solutions based on citizen feedback.

Solutions developed as part of the “Transport 4 All Challenge” will seek to integrate formal and informal mode of public transport wherever it is possible and desirable.
Those solutions that demonstrate the capability to meet the transportation requirements of the urban population will be piloted in selected cities across India.
More than 130 cities have taken part in the Stage I of the challenge, which was launched on April 15, 2021.
Over 100 cities have set up a Transport 4 All Task Force (TTF), having key government stakeholders involved in transportation sector and academic institutions, NGOs and IPT unions.
These cities have successfully conducted surveys of citizens, bus drivers, conductors and informal public transport drivers. This provided the largest public transport data in the country.
46 cities that qualified for Stage II used the survey data to develop more than 165 problem statement. This has now been curated to a final list of 8 problem statement.
Stage-2 of the challenge is currently open for startups to develop solutions for problems identified by the cities.
The startups can pitch their solutions at the Startup India Portal.