Young people from Chilean universities innovated to continue improving safety on Red Movilidad buses
- This is the contest “Young Innovators: Challenging the Future of Mobility”, where engineering students from the Catholic University won first place with a prototype chatbot with artificial intelligence to report harassment situations.
- This initiative goes hand in hand with the great steps in security that Red Movilidad has taken, such as the enabling of a surveillance system with security cameras in 1,600 buses and the “Share your trip” option in its mobile app.
Thursday, May 15, 2025.- One of the main priorities of the Red Movilidad system is to continue advancing in safety for its users, so students from different universities in Chile met to develop innovative proposals to face this challenge.
This is the second version of “Young Innovators: Challenging the Future of Mobility”, organized by the Metropolitan Public Transport Directorate (DTPM) through its Innovation Center “Red Movilidad Innova”, which was held at the Beauchef campus of the University of Chile.
On the occasion, students from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the University of Santiago, the Gabriela Mistral University and the San Sebastián University from the Concepción and Santiago campuses, and this year’s host institution, the University of Chile, participated.
In this sense, the director of Metropolitan Public Transport, Paola Tapia Salas, mentioned that “RED has made great strides in terms of safety, both for users and for drivers. We want to continue advancing on this path hand in hand with citizens, and through our Red Movilidad Innova space, we organize this contest that has brought together students from different universities, to promote instances that allow our system to continue offering a better travel experience.”
While the Undersecretary of Crime Prevention, Carolina Leitao, valued the realization of this type of initiative with an open call, highlighting that “more than 50 students have presented different ideas where there is a lot of creativity and, of course, also, where the challenges we have in terms of security can be made visible and addressed.”
The winning team was “Redín” from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, who were recognized thanks to a chatbot proposal with artificial intelligence to report cases of harassment in real time.
With a prototype of an alarm linked to security cameras that detect suspicious movements through artificial intelligence, the second place in the contest went to the “InnMove” team from the University of Santiago.
While third place went to the “Gender Approach” team from the University of Chile, which presented a personalized route planner that awards rewards for reporting the quality of the trip.
In this regard, it should be remembered that in recent years, the Red Movilidad system has implemented measures such as the enabling of a new telesurveillance system with security cameras on 1,600 buses and the “Share your trip” tool in the RED app.
In addition to this, more than 300 Safe, Accessible and Gender-Sensitive Stops have been implemented in 20 districts of Santiago, which have LED lighting, a panic button, a screen that indicates buses on their way and universal accessibility elements.
