An app where users can easily and intuitively request or share rides
Updated January 29, 2014
Problem Statement: A Purdue Ride-Board group exists on Facebook that students use to carpool together. Some students are trying to find a way home, while others are looking to take someone to help with gas. The Facebook group’s usage is complex, inconsistent, and requires manual monitoring of posts in order to find a ride. Some websites already exist for this type of software, but none are specifically for college students (and are therefore seen as shady to many students).
Project Objectives: This project will aim to create a web app where users can easily and intuitively request or share rides.
Stakeholders:
- Users: Students looking to request or share a ride with other students on campus in a more convenient and consistent way than is currently available
- Customers: The users of the software
- Software Developers: Evan Arnold, Logan Gore, Stephen Hong, Steven Leewood, Isabel Lee Li, Timothy Thong
- Development Manager: Mohammad Qudeisat, Project Coordinator
Project Deliverables: To make the process of requesting or sharing a ride to or from campus for students, a web app with the following features will be created:
- Ability to request a ride to a given destination
- Ability to share a ride to a given destination
- Automatically suggest people you could get a ride with based on destination proximity
- Suggestion of how much to pay the driver based on current gas prices
- Email alert when a matching request/share is found
- Utilization of Google Maps to help students visualize how far a person could take you or how far out of your way you’d have to drive to give someone a ride to their destination
Evan Arnold, Logan Gore, Stephen Hong, Steven Leewood, Isabel Lee Li, Timothy Thong