Students Design Accessibility for Flooded Roads

Metro Pacific Tollways Corp., the largest road developer and operator in the Philippines, recognized the ingenuity of industrial design students for their proposed temporary access way for waterlogged thoroughfares.

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TAWID, a provisional bridge intended for light vehicles, was conceptualized to be easily deployed, extracted and decompressed by incident response teams over roads or sections of expressways rendered inaccessible amid inclement weather.

To uplift and improve urban mobility, the project was the brainchild of students Justin Osorio, Laurence Hernandez, and Ralf Sales of Team Benilde's School of Environment and Design of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.

The young talents understood the repercussions of floods as a national issue which does not only affect the safety, speed, and security of the people, but likewise impacts the local economy.