Transportation Innovation for Silicon Valley & Beyond

Hack My Ride 2.0 challenges you to create technology that will transform how we get around in Silicon Valley. Help us create working apps and tools that will make it easier for people to plan trips, connect with their surroundings, and enrich their transportation experience.

We want you to go beyond transit trip planners--there are already many apps out there that help people plan their trips--and create innovative user experiences that haven't been tried before. Think about beacons, wearables, mashing up VTA data with other non-transit data, and brilliant data visualizations.

You are not required to make your app available to the public via a website or app store, so you don't need to worry about allowing time for the app to go through the stores' approval process. Please see section 4 of the Rules for details about how you can submit your app for judging.

You'll need to incorporate VTA data into your app so this will help VTA customers in Silicon Valley, but we want you to think even bigger and build something that could help people get around anywhere in the world.

We particularly encourage use of beacon technology we'll be piloting during Hack My Ride. Beacons have applications for wayfinding, location-based communications, accessibility for visually impaired people, loyalty programs and games that enhance the transit and mobility experience.

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