Westlane is a NYC Westside Highway Transit System which integrate social media with transportation system. New vehicle design and the transit system were developed, and new grounds on which transit systems and social media can come together to deliver new user experiences.
The research, design, and system development was executed during the senior thesis seminar by Pratt Industrial Design students Selim Benhabib and Taehoon Kim, advised by ID department chairman Steve Diskin and professor HyukJae Henry Yoo.
The main features of the Friends on Lane design and research include:
- Transit system investigates and integrates transportation and entertainment needs within the vicinity of the west side of New York City
- The vehicle design and the transit infrastructure employs intelligent autonomous driving technology and combines human-power and solar power to achieve energy efficiency
- First physically manifested application of social networking fully integrated into physical environment and transportation design
Westlane from selim benhabib on Vimeo.
Selim BenHabib is a designer at Bentley Motors. TaeHoon Kim is a designer at ThinkGeek.
