World Usability Day and the Usability Professionals' Association will launch the Global Transport Challenge on November 13th.  It's an easy way for you to understand how you use transportation everyday and the impact it has on our environment.

You will be able to:

• MEASURE your everyday transportation usage
• MONITOR your  personal carbon travel footprint and compare yourself to othersaround the world
• MINIMIZE your energy usage through alternative transportation choices, carbon offsets, and simple travel changes  thereby  maximizing the impact on our world.

Why Participate?

By taking the Global Transport Challenge you will be actively making a difference in your life and in the lives of others.

The information you will receive will help you make simple changes in the way you travel each day that will save energy, and have lasting impact on you, your community, and the world.  It's fun, It's easy, It's important!

Learn more and take the Global Transport Challenge
Promote the Global Transport Challenge on your website

Transportation means moving products and people in its broadest sense. Usability in transportation speaks to the interaction of people and the vehicles, the challenges and issues infrastructure and modes for moving around in our environment. . We spend time repeatedly, everyday getting our things and ourselves from point A to point B. It varies by day, by location, by time and by need and requires us to utilize many forms of transport. World Usability Day 2008 is focused on exploring and creating awareness for several aspects of transportation:

• How has transportation impacted our culture and society? What are the opportunities and constraints for our society?
• How do humans interact with the following aspects of transportation:
  • Modes – automobiles, planes, trains and subways, boats, trucks, busses, bikes, animals, and more.
  • Infrastructure – roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, and more.
  • Technologies and resources supporting transportation – online travel advisory and ticketing, maps and more.
  • Security
  • Signage
• How do the modes interact with each other?
• How do transportation modes and issues impact our environment? How can being green improve usability of transportation?
• How have accessibility issues and challenges been addressed by transportation?

With your support and involvement we believe that together we can begin to answer some of these questions and spotlight the advances, the success stories and the challenges we face daily.

Share

Become a Contributor

How can you begin to address these questions? SHARE! Please share your stories about transportation – what’s your favorite travel story? Have you altered your auto usage based on today’s challenges? How would you rate the road signs in your city?.

Share your photos of different types of transportation in your hometown, on a business trip, on vacations, highlight road signs that work for you and those that don’t; expose the latest technology or tool you use that helps you navigate and get from point A to point B!

Check out our SHARE pages for more information and instructions on how to insure your photos, videos, stories, and comments are part of World Usability Day 2008.

Transportation impacts our lives on a daily basis. It allows to access basic human needs – water, food, and helps us fulfill our work and our lives.