World Usability Day and the Global Transport Challenge
Today is World Usability Day 2008, and this year’s theme is transportation. As part of the day’s events, the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) has announced the Global Transport Challenge, which includes a little web-based carbon calculator.
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.
Today there are World Usability Day events in over 40 countries, many will be webcast, and some will take place online only. World Usability Day is a UPA initiative to
provide a single worldwide day of events around the world that brings together communities of professional, industrial, educational, citizen and governmental groups for our common objective: to ensure that technology helps people live to their full potential and helps create a better world for all citizens everywhere. [Link]
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Thu 18 Jun 02009
The transport theme was awesome. great idea indeed.
Mon 26 Apr 02010
We are trying to become global environment friendly transport company. Is there any EU organisation that support buying gas/electric vehicles?
Sat 14 Aug 02010
Keep up the good work. Hope to see this kind of articles in the future. Is there any chance you could investigate about electrical houses that can make enough electricity to power a small electrical car?
Sun 20 Feb 02011
Germany is trying to include low gas emitting vehicles, so there is surely some kind of EU organization that can help. We have a job that requires a lot of driving and vehicles in the town, so it would be great if we could buy electrical cars and wagons for a normal car price.