Report 1 - Meeting with counterparts

Report 1
Meeting with counterparts
April 14, 2020

On April 14, 2020 at 10 am (Brasília time, GMT-3), the meeting began to present the Lapassion project of the Team 2gether to the counterparts. All members of the team 2gether were present at the meeting, as well as one of our tutors, Neemias, and Pedro, Edisberto and André representing Senador Canedo's Municipal Traffic and Transport Secretariat and Victor were present on behalf of the Municipal Secretary of Education and Culture of Senador Canedo.
The project's theme is "Use of technologies to improve urban mobility for people with specific needs".
During the week before the presentation of the project to the counterparts, a video was prepared, summarizing all the work done by Team 2gether to date. This video addresses the main reason for choosing our solution to solve some of the urban mobility problems that large cities face. Thus, the proposal of the team focuses on improving existing bus stops in the city, aiming at the accessibility of people with visual problems.
The idea is to create an interactive screen at bus stops, where the user presses a physical button on the screen, which through a sound system serves real-time information on the bus lines available at that point and the approximate times of the next ones bus. For its operation we will use the SiMRmtc system, a system that already works in the metropolitan region. For a better use of the bus stop, these will also be reinforced with signs in braille, with indications about the bus lines and respective schedules.

Our counterparts were satisfied with the work done, praising the work done so far and highlighted some points, namely:
- Existence of many elderly people in the municipality;
- Lack of information from the population regarding the existence of applications / technology;
- Lack of sidewalks in the city (which greatly limits mobility).
It was also suggested by our counterparts to create a prototype of the main avenue of Senador Canedo, Avenida Dom Emanuel, as an example of urban mobility in the city. This avenue would have sidewalks, tactile flooring, sound signals, traffic lights, light, ramps ... All the requirements to make it accessible to everyone in the city.

After a brief discussion, the group decided to use the suggestion of our counterparts, but not forgetting our main idea suggested. For the group the main idea that Lapassion tries to transmit is innovation. Therefore, we will combine innovation with the creation of an avenue in Senador Canedo accessible to all its users. The idea of ​​creating an avenue accessible to all is very motivating, being interesting and challenging to see this happen in reality.

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