FASTA
Industry, Innovation and Infastructure
Critically examine your community and the feasibility of a working alternate transport solution, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.
HELP UPGRADING TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS NETWORKS IN COMMUNITIES:
Strictly speaking, transport refers to the movementof people, and logistics refers to the movement of freight. It’s all about moving things, storing things and supplying things. And when we say ‘things’, we mean anything and everything, from people and animals to goods and services. Without the transport and logistics industry, we wouldn’t be able to get to work in the morning, or fly away on holiday, and international trade would certainly not be ‘inter-national’ anymore. Plus, you would never wake up to find a birthday card being stuffed through your letterbox.From the above definitions, FASTA is set in place to help upgrading transport and logistics networks in communities.
- Citizen’s safety and health
- Vulnerability cases “every one at a certain stage is vulnerable from the above definition ”
- Difficulty in accessibility to ease livelihood.
Maximizing transport accessibility for all social groups, gender and income level, so that all citizens can access health care, education, jobs, businesses and a lot more with minimal effort, cost, safety and journey time. FASTA will also create a safe, secured environment with minimum possible risk of becoming victim of kidnapping, robbery and other threat to human kind .
- FASTA will suggest where is safe to be, and what time is safe to be there based on past activities that has happened in that area, also from social media and also get feedbacks from travelers about locations. Based on this information’s or data gotten, thereby reducing the level of insecurity.
- FASTA will support travelers by helping them book their travels from home and giving them the necessary details they need to know concerning their trips and incidence report along their trip direction, providing personalized email/SMS, special offers and discount from listed vendors.
- FASTA will also assist people with disabilities by letting them know if their provision like wheel chair, walkways in their desired destination, hence help them prepare ahead for the situations
- FASTA will help to schedule users’ movements and travels to any place like hospitals, super markets banks etc.
- FASTA will collect information’s from transport companies pertaining to their stations and parks around the country, prices and other necessary information’s that can assist travelers in picking the right choice.
- FASTA also give users shortest routes at all time and also in terms of emergency.
- FASTA will have various customer segments including travelers,drivers, transport companies etc.
- FASTA will also provide voice support for visually imped persons
- With FASTA, you can monitor one’s journey and optimizes traffic
FASTA APP will enhance the well-being by saving of lives through our alternate transport solution.
- The global status Report on road safety 2018, lauched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reach 1.35 million. Road trafficinjuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years which makes it to be the eighth-leading cause of death. Don’t panic because FASTA is here to solve this problem.FASTA gives you access to avoid traffic congestion by alerting you and suggesting the shortest route to your destination.
- The level of insecurity to visitors, or a vulnerable individual who is new to an environment is at high site because that individual have no idea on how things are being done in the new environment. And this has buildup fear (to many travelling to a new place) of robbery, doping, kidnapping,paying twice or triple price of transportation and even being lost.FASTA has solved this challenge of insecurity to visitors by equipping them with all necessary information they will needeven before taking off. Hence improving the wellbeing.
- It was observed that people with vulnerability tend not to travel due to their challenge like acquiring of wheelchair, inhaler, having no access to specialist, and other medicate kit that will help them. Fasta tells you where to get a specialist and also where to acquire your medical kits.Time is money, thus, why wasting your time in a traffic congestion when you have customers to attend to, meetings,interview or exams, a lot of work on your desk to submit, emergency cases to attend to and more. I know it’s inevitable but with FASTA it’s now evitable. FASTA gives you update on road activities and also suggest the shortest routeto destination in a short time. No late to meeting, interview e.t.c caused due to traffic.
- It was observed that many having a critical challenges like heart attack, high blood pressure patients, and even victims of accident loss their lives before reaching the hospital or even before living their houses which is caused either through, delay of emergency van, having no contact of any hospital emergency unit and sometimes difficulty in getting a public vehicle at night. Fasta have solution to this problem whereby it give individualaccess to nearest hospital and also contact list of every emergency unit. FASTA is also giving individual access to contact public vehicle close to them (at that moment) at the same time suggesting a shortest route to the targeted hospital by cutting traffic congestion.
- Imagine having an opportunity of booking a ticket at your convenient with a lot of option of choosing a comfortable, secured and cheap ticket price. Which one will you go for?Fasta gives you the list of transport’s company around you, their services, prices and discount rate. It’s awesome?You save money from securing an expensive ticket.
- FASTA will give you a list of approved local riders which will prevent you from paying twice of the supposed price (for visitors).Difference between an individual using FASTA APP with anotherUsing FASTA APP:
- Life will be more secure and safeYou save money in terms of transportation Save time by avoiding traffic congestion
- Schedule your journey at your convenient
- How to get user to trust FASTA and provide accurate informations
- Relying on google api and transporter api for reporting
Based on analysis, all user segments will benefit from FASTA as shown above.
Travelers have a high percentage based on the following imparts below;
- Accessibility: giving access to transport companies at their convenient
- Knowledge: It will enable travelers not to be cut unaware by updating them with information.
- Safety: Having access to more secure and approved vehicles, plan for movement only when it’s safe hence avoiding falling a victim.
- Save Money: having access to cheaper tickets, avoiding up and down movement which leads to losing money when purchasing a ticket or looking for a vehicles.
- Save time: FASTA will assist you in avoiding time wastage in car parks for purchase of tickets or waiting for vehicles to full, hence save your time.
Drivers;
- Knowledge: it will enable drivers not to be cut unaware by updating them with relevant info that will make their journey smooth.
- Safety: they will receive updates on real time info which will enhance their safety on the go.
- Save time: avoiding time relating issues like traffic congestion e.t.c
Transport Companies;
- Accessibility: making their company accessible to the community hence increase their popularity and services.
- Keeping track of their customer for update on their service
Based on the analysis above (safety, accessibility, saving time and money, knowledge e.t.c.), people using FASTA will benefit more and find living easier than non-users.
- Nextjs - Frontend framework used
- Nodejs - Backend framework used
- MongoAtlas - Cloud based Database service used
- ETCHIE DANIEL - Frontend Developer, Techincal Team Leader,
- IBE ARUA - Backend Developer, Product Manager
- OBAFEMI - Fullstack Developer,
- FAWAS KAREEM - Backend Developer,
- SHAMMAH NEI - Frontend Developer, UI/UX Designer
- ISAAC - Backend Developer,
- CHUBUKAS - Backend Developer,
- JOSPEH ODUNSI - Frontend Developer,
If this project sounds interesting to you and you'd like to contribute, thank you! First, you can send a mail to buildforsdg@andela.com to indicate your interest, why you'd like to support and what forms of support you can bring to the table, but here are areas we think we'd need the most help in this project :
- area one (e.g this app is about human trafficking and you need feedback on your roadmap and feature list from the private sector / NGOs)
- area two (e.g you want people to opt-in and try using your staging app at staging.project-name.com and report any bugs via a form)
- area three (e.g here is the zoom link to our end-of sprint webinar, join and provide feedback as a stakeholder if you can)
Team - 002 wants to explicitly thank Facebook and Andela for their support and assistance throughout this project. Special shoutout to Sam Esidem, Charles Odili, Amaka Mbaegbu,Joy Ejiofoh for their assitance, patience and availability to help us through our difficulties.
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