commuting the stress that doesn't pay.

movilogo

tackling a design project which is aiming to improve the commuting experience

1. Make parking in stations free for commuters (i.e. if they have a valid train ticket)

2. Reduce cost of train travel (it is robbery) by nationalizing railways again.

3. Get out of London centric economy.

4. Encourage work from home wherever possible/practical.

That's all what I can think now.

Cash-Strapped.T32

How about some kind of real-time traffic-monitoring system, possibly in the form of a smartphone program that works in a similar fashion to higher end tom-toms & such, but as well as monitoring traffic in general, "knows" where each bus/train in the network is, and can advise the user on which routes are less clogged - For example if it would be worth letting the next bus go past in order to get the one after (longer route but less congestion today, etc..)

Or possibly to advise a user whether the busses or trains are running your preferred routes quickest today, and which combination of individual busses & trains would provide the quickest arrival given the current traffic circumstances - Or even if it would be better to drive or take public transport on any given morning.
That sort of thing.

Key requirement would be for those trackers that bus companies are always banging on about (the ones that are meant to update those magic bus-stops to tell you how long the next bus will be, etc..) are actually working, and universal across busses & trains, but as a useful product, I think it's the best idea yet (after the automatic fat-person detector of course) if it could ever be made to work.