Team TRUST, from the Transport Research and Education Centre of Excellence at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana, placed first in the “Transport Control in Case of GNSS Failures” category of the International Transport Project Contest, hosted by the Russian University of Transport in Moscow.
The challenge, set by an industry partner, addressed a real problem: autonomous public transport becomes unreliable when satellite navigation signals are disrupted by jamming or spoofing. The team, Benjamin Dagbey, Ebo Biney and Godfrey Mensah, mentored by Dr Emmanuel Dzisi, presented a computer simulation of their technology, TRUST (Transport Resilient Unified Sensor Technology), showing how transport could keep operating in such conditions.
The contest drew more than 3,000 participants in over 750 teams in the preliminary stages, 29 of which reached the three-day final. The category win earned the team a prize of 200,000 roubles.
