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Spark Tees Valley

Context

Want to enjoy the journey as well as the destination?

Tasks

Encouraging public transport for environmental or merely logistical reasons is very much an international intention but there needs to be a decent offer to make people leave their cars behind. These resources are design led and focus on the quality of the trains and how they can be made more appealing to passengers.

Any of the tasks on Spark can be done with a crayon and a bit of scrap paper but the guidance provided is aimed at promoting the thought processes behind design thinking at every step of the way. Who is the product aimed at and how can it best serve their needs?

Train design ideas (teacher)

Train design planner (blank)

Train design planner (annotated)

Learning

Innovative or more of the old?

Why stop the train for passengers and waste energy?

Cool travel on a train in Norway

Future ideas from aeroplane travel

Use iMovie to create a documentary better than this!

You know about the hydrogen vehicle plan for the Tees Valley don’t you?

We have already changed the future for

30000

young people across the UK