Colorado Department of Transportation

Skipso worked with RoadX to help the organization facilitate a series of innovation challenges which would ask the public for solutions to the most pressing road safety issues.

The Rural Road Safety Challenge

Concerned by a country-wide study which found that while rural roads only carry less than half of America’s traffic they account for 53% of traffic fatalities, the CDOT wanted to develop a series of challenges, open to the public, that would address this issue.  

The goal of the challenges would be to source innovative technologies to prevent potential road hazards. The challenges would address three key transport issues: Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions, Soft Shoulders and Sharp Turns.

The Bicycle and Pedestrian Challenge

In another earlier project the CDOT wanted to address the issue of the high rate of road fatalities for Cyclists and Pedestrians in the country.  To do so, the CDOT was interested in initiating a challenge which would ask entrepreneurs and ideators to come up with solutions to help keep these two groups safe on the road.

To help facilitate its challenge programs the CDOT required a robust innovation management software platform with a simple-to-use interface, which would allow users to easily make submissions and allow judges to effortlessly make evaluations.

Utilizing Skipso modular customizable platform, the CDOT was able to easily manage the end-to-end workflow of its innovation challenges. The platform provided them with:                                

• A standalone website, with an intuitive interface, to help users easily make challenge submissions
• Customizable submission forms, which can be configured to meet the exact requirements of the program at each stage of evaluation
• Virtually endless application attachment format options, including: videos, images documents, drawings and presentations
• Gamification and crowd voting tools which would allow judges to easily make submissions evaluations