Bengaluru Traffic Hackathon Draws 33,600 Participants, Produces 1,100 AI Prototypes

Bengaluru traffic hackathon draws 33,600 participants, produces 1,100 AI prototypes

As Bengaluru continues to grapple with congestion and parking-related traffic issues, Flipkart and the Bengaluru Traffic Police have brought together thousands of innovators to develop technology-driven solutions for the city’s urban mobility challenges.

Flipkart taps crowdsourced AI to help untangle Bengaluru's traffic problem

More than 33,000 developers competed to build machine learning models on real traffic data, underscoring how enterprises are increasingly opening proprietary datasets to outside innovators to solve civic-scale problems

Bengaluru Traffic Police turns to AI as 33,600 participants build ideas to fight gridlock

Bengaluru Traffic Police has teamed up with Flipkart and technology partners to explore AI-based ways to tackle traffic congestion in the city. The second edition of the Gridlock Hackathon drew 33,600 participants from across India and produced more than 1,100 prototypes built around real Bengaluru traffic data. The challenge was run with MapmyIndia, Arcadis and HackerEarth. Participants worked with anonymised datasets from the Bengaluru Traffic…

Flipkart Announces Gridlock Hackathon 2.0 Winners

Bengaluru, September 03, 2026: Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, today announced the results of Gridlock Hackathon 2.0, an open challenge designed to crowdsource AI and machine learning solutions for Bengaluru’s traffic and urban mobility challenges. Conducted in collaboration with Bengaluru Traffic Police, MapmyIndia, Arcadis, and HackerEarth, the hackathon encouraged participants to build solutions using anonymised, […]