What is it?
The issue which Sisifos team took up during the issue process is the economic, social and psychological impact of increasing traffic congestion in the world. According to research, the anxiety related to traffic can cause aggression and chronic stress in drivers. At the same time, the lack of sleep due to the time that needs to be spent in traffic to get to work or school is detrimental to health. Stress and sleep deprivation effects quality of physical performance, memory, and focus. This hurts the productivity of individuals.
For this reason, the team based their ideas and investigations on these harmful effects of traffic and determined their beneficiaries to be the white collar workers and students who are intensely subjected to these ill effects.
Why?
The team envision a city where people are less affected by the exhausting aspects of traffic; are more productive at work, school, or their private lives, and in better condition psychologically. The team, who have listened to the effects of congested traffic on people’s psychological well-being thanks to their field research, have also realized that this stress also cause tension and intolerance in traffic. For this reason, Sisifos aims for a splitting and reorganization of working hours in order to minimize the time wasted in traffic, and to develop applications which would make the time spent in traffic more productive, such as podcasts.