The Taxi Design Contest, run by the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, is now going for a plebiscite.
The vote will take place on June 15-29 over the Internet. İstanbul residents have already chosen the design concepts of buses, trams and ferries in past years.
The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality came to the final stage of the Taxi Design Contest, which aimed to provide more comfortable services to the people. The winning project will be chosen in the contest. It will be open for technological developments and focus on security and accident prevention technologies and accessibility features for the disabled. A municipal officer said the design will have characteristics specific to İstanbul.
The contestants competed in three different categories: professionals, graduates and middle school students. Twenty projects chosen by the jury will be available for the plebiscite and the winning project will be announced on June 1.
Cihan news agency