Remember the big deal over the statistic that half of the world's population now lives in cities? That's nothing compared to projections for the year 2050, which say two-thirds of Earthlings will live in urban areas. Our planet is practically going to start looking like the entirely urban Star Wars planet of Coruscant.

That being the case, traffic is going to be bad, making the current Los Angeles rush hour look like frickin' Nurburgring. Cars are not going to cut it. To address this, forward-thinking, global transportation company Bombardier is sponsoring the YouCity Innovation Competition, seeking design concepts for "the future of urban mobility."

The competition will be divided into two tasks:

Task 1: The candidates will start by drawing an overview of the current and upcoming issues and bottlenecks of their target city's urban mobility, and provide a more detailed analysis of the most important one(s). They will then have to come up with a solution to the challenge(s) analyzed earlier. The candidates will present a concept that will solve or significantly improve the current situation, or that will prevent a future issue. The most important is to be concrete and specific!

Task 2: The second task is about a fully comprehensive and holistic approach. How does the proposal fit in the global picture for that city? This final proposal should combine all of the 3 aspects: Engineering, Business and Urban planning. Therefore, the candidates are strongly invited to collaborate and enrich their concept with ideas from other work streams than their own!

Registration's open now, and the competition officially beings on April 16th. Click here for more info.