Skip to main content

ITS (UK) accepts essays for student awards 

Participants should consider key challenges facing de-carbonisation
By Ben Spencer September 2, 2021 Read time: 1 min
The awards will be for the best essay of 1,500 words in apprentice and student categories (© Yari | Dreamstime.com)

ITS (UK) is accepting essays on decarbonisation for the 2021 awards for students and apprentices until 18 October. 

ITS (UK) is encouraging participants to elaborate on various ITS solutions which will lead to accomplishing decarbonisation objectives and specifically on solutions that do not currently exist. 

The organisation is asking participants to consider the key challenges and barriers facing de-carbonisation and how ITS will play an integral part in realising de-carbonisation goals. 

It also wants to understand how applicants envisage the transport industry of the future if the potential solutions are successful. 

The awards will be for the best essay of 1,500 words in both the apprentice and undergraduate or MSc student categories. 

Students and apprentices who studied at any time during 2021 can submit essays based on existing course work, or written especially for the award. Marks will be awarded for technical understanding, innovative ideas and a holistic approach to transport technology.
 

Related Content

  • November 17, 2023
    Hello Gen Z – our name’s ITS and we’d love to meet you
    ITS is a life-changing, planet-saving industry. But how the sector can convince Gen Z that ITS is a good career option? Sharon Kindleysides has a few ideas – not least explaining what ITS actually is
  • January 18, 2019
    Entries open for ITS America’s 10th student essay competition
    US college and university students are being invited to submit their thoughts on the future of mobility in an ITS America scheme which offers a $1,000 prize. Submissions will be accepted until 14 April for the competition, which is sponsored by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). As well as the cash, the winner will get a paid trip to Washington, DC for the ITS America 2019 annual meeting on 4-7 June. They will need to write something on the topic: “How do you envision disruptive technologies impact
  • November 3, 2021
    Cop26: Mobility group issues EV charge advice 
    Mature EV charging systems require dedicated transport or energy ministry brief from gov
  • June 3, 2015
    Student essay award winners honored at ITS America in Pittsburgh
    The 2015 student essay winners were honored Tuesday morning during the ITS America Business Meeting. Chris Fitzpatrick from the University of Missouri wrote the winning essay about the potential of platooning autonomous commercial trucks with a single driver, saving fuel, improving safety and increasing lane capacity. Fitzpatrick’s winning essay ‘Enhancing Commercial Vehicle Safety and Emissions Reduction by the use of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication in Tractor-Trailer Platoons’ argues that the technolo