List of hackathons about transport in 2016

The Final Frontier Festival 2016 is one of the largest celebration of space in Melbourne, aimed to engage everyone. From curious children to nostalgic adults, from science fiction enthusiasts to tech entrepreneurs and researchers. Together you will launch the next Frontier with a myriad of stellar workshops, talks, exhibitions and events happening over these five days. Come and celebrate the exploration, innovation and education of space and the burgeoning Australian space industry.

Red Alert! Hackers wanted to build a great app to navigate the Milton Keynes Redway system--a 169+ mile network of RED tarmac paths for cyclists and pedestrians that criss-crosses the city. Help open up the Redway--making it easy and safe to travel. Participate in the Milton Keynes hackathon and build a Redway app that maps the system, highlights great places to visit, alerts travelers to busy spots and anything else you can conceive.

This is a huge event inviting over 300 inventors, investors, researchers, and entrepreneurs to innovate our way to a cleaner, healthier, more efficient future. Together you will aim to reimagining waste as a resource, advance science, develop new technologies, and create novel market opportunities. Waste and resource topics will be covered by looking at biotech, medicine, materials, AI, fin-tech, and consumer goods. This conference is not to be missed! A series of innovative programs culminating the brightest minds in the world, all in one day. The event will include the UK’s first Bio-Hackathon, the 2nd annual Sustainable Futures Challenge finale, and a sustainable technology start-up exhibition. There will be local and international media coverage from Bloomberg, WIRED, BBC and more!

The CycleHackParis 2016 is a weekend of creativity and teamwork to find some great ideas, prototype, test, and document them. Your mission will be to break down barriers and facilitate cycling in the city in 48-hours. This event is open to anyone. Come taste the MAKER culture. Whatever your specialty, your training or profession, come participate in CycleHack Paris 2016.

This event is open to all UX designers, Full Stack Developers (all levels), UAV hobbyists, ROS experience a plus, Data Scientists, as well as to navy service members and the public. Your mission will be to broaden the Navy cyber community and include a broader community of source code programmers and developers. The Naval Postgraduate School set a world record last year for flying the largest swarm of drones ever controlled by a common code base. This control system is now coming to San Francisco for you to hack!

Interested in how technology can help people with disabilities or seniors? Participate in this hackathon for digital service autonomy: disability, home care, old age. Participants can be students, employees, freelance, entrepreneurs, independent professionals, researchers or those seeking employment, particularly in the field of IT, design, marketing, digital usages. The goal of the hackathon is to design and build a prototype product or digital service and present the user experience for people with disabilities or seniors under two themes: the live well and age well.

This is a 3-day event created to connect young talents in the field of design, engineering and entrepreneurship with innovation opportunities presented by major companies. The event will include a vision of the Google Keynote I/O and a hackathon in which participants will compete to find the best creative new solutions to business cases proposed by Google. 9 hours of the event will be on a newly re-introduced passenger train, and you will be travelling from Gaborone to Francistown on the train.

Hackers! If you have an idea how to make rail travel easier, better, more comfortable with digital applications, then sign up for DB Open Data Tech Hackday? You'll have access to some cool resources, including relayr Android app proto IoT, the Deutsche Bahn's open data portal, the OpenStreetMapper API and much more. Compete in a team and combine sensors and software and take your idea from concept to prototype--all in one day. There will be a range of prizes for winning prototypes. Win prizes for apps using data from the DB APIs, and for apps that use your mobile phone as a sensor kit to connect with Deutsche Bahn's train station clock.

Come attend OSCEdays London 2016 a global hackathon-style event and community to create open resources and possibilities for a global shift towards a waste-free, sustainable and environmentally friendly Circular Economy. This event will be an opportunity to collaboratively imagine a future where London embraces open source and circular economy thinking. People from industry, grassroots, maker & hacker movements, students, etc. will work together on all kinds of challenges discussing, developing and experimenting with the Open Source Circular Economy (OSCE).

Come join in the Circular Towns - Circular Mapping Challenge at Reading Green Festival, which is part of London/ READING OSCEdays. The focus will be around sharing, learning, meeting new people and exploring new places through a circular lens. Participants will have a chance to explore the city and engage in mapping the local activities and related places – putting circular initiatives on the map (literally). The goal is to create an open map of the towns circular related activities and connections that will be of use and can be built upon further by local groups.