Car Pooling for IITI
Made with love by
- Adarsh Baghel
- Ruchir Mehta
- Namani Sreeharsh
- Shaikh Ubaid
Link to Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
Link to UML Diagrams
Under the guidance of
Dr Puneet Gupta
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Spring 2020
Screens
Log In Screen
Home Screen
Menu
Join Plan
Create Plan
Requests
Profile Page
Journey Details Screen
Introduction
Since inappropriate planning of the cities, there has been a big problem of traffic in most cities
of India. People spend much of their time in traffic every day. In Addition to this many vehicles
in traf ic makes rapid oil consumption, there has been an uprising problem of air pollution. Oil
supplies are very limited all over the world and oil prices are extremely expensive in our
country. Therefore, most of the people have to take buses and since the number of public
transportation vehicles are not suf icient, they travel under uncomfortable conditions.
There are some attempts to solve these problems, however, they focus only on intercity transportation.
We
came up with an ef ective solution as www.uniteonwheels.com .Our project will be used for both
intercity and urban transportations all over India. As a result, our system will be designed to
solve these problems and deficiencies of other systems .
Scope
The “Car Pooling for IITI” is a GPS-based mobile application which helps people to find the
closest vehicle based on the user’s current position and other specifications like time of
departure, price, contact information of passengers travelling and number of seats available. This
information will act as the basis for the search results displayed to the user. The application
should be free to download from either a mobile phone application store or similar services.
Furthermore, the software needs both Internet and GPS connection to fetch and display results.
All system information is maintained in a database, which is located on firebase( an online db
service). The application uses the mobile phone’s GPS navigator. By using the GPS-Navigator,
users can view available vehicles on a map and can navigate towards them. The application also
has the capability of representing both summary and detailed information about the available
vehicles which will take the passenger to the required destination .
This application will bring about a big revolution in sharing vehicles thus reducing pollution and
traffic in cities. This will be operated from both the passenger intended to travel and the
passenger already travelling in a vehicle and willing to share their ride.
Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
Functions
- #Sign Up: Users need to sign up to use the app. The users should have a username and password. After filling their name, surname, email, age, designation, phone and gender information, they register into the system.
- #Sign In: If a user is signed up, s/he can sign in the system by filling username and password boxes.
- #Sign Out: A user may need to sign out of the system. He/She can do it by clicking the sign out button which is placed on every page.
- #Accepting passengers preferences: This functionality allows passengers to enter their departure point, arrival point, mode of transport(car,autos,cabs,busses), date and time of departure.There will be certain tolerance limit set by the user itself(for this we will have to set lower tolerance limit(before preferred time) and upper tolerance limit(after preferred time) for extracting recommendations) . User also can select the clusters which he/she wants to join i.e., if he/she wants to join a favourite
- #Personalised suggestions: Our CarPooling Application analyses the database frequently and gives personalised suggestions regarding best departing time(based on time tolerances)(this is dif erent from preferred time as it may happen that a big cluster may begin their journey at some time just before or after the preferred time, so our app may request us to depart at the nearest time possible to the preferred time) , travelling time, mode of transport(car,autos,cabs,busses) and nearest pickup locations and all other locations of pickup(there will be a certain criterion (distance)for suggesting a place as the best point for boarding the vehicle which is certainly walkable from the current position of the user)(this is dif erent from our point of departure as sometimes, it may happen that a big cluster may depart from a point near the preferred pickup point , so our app may suggest them to depart from the changed point) (this functionality also encompasses route to that point)so that number of clusters is minimised at any point of time, which is beneficial to all the users, as per head cost is significantly reduced.
- #Adding clusters to the database: Our application also needs user’s amicable co-ordination. If users are ready to accompany some people then, this may also become a potential cluster and adding this to the database will improve the reachability of the app. So, we enable users of the app with the best possible UI to add their current location, their departure time, departure point, arrival point. This is also integrated with personal chat with the passengers of the cluster for knowing the conditions of the traf ic and also the feasibility of their inclusion in their cluster i.e, if there exists heavy traf ic in the route planned before then, by personal chat existing passengers may request him/her to choose another cluster over them or begin a new cluster.
- #Send Message: The users can communicate with each other by sending messages.
- #Reply To A Message: After receiving a message, the user can read the message and reply to it.
- # Block User: When a user receives a disturbing message, s/he can block the user who send that message.
- #See cluster’s route: This functionality enables the user to see a particular cluster’s current route and this is preceded by a set of all available clusters ready to accommodate additional passengers.
- #Disable additional inclusions: This functionality disables the cluster to allow additional passengers. Passengers can do this if they feel that they can’t accommodate additional passengers and it stops covering their details.
- #Feedback from the customers: This functionality enables the customer to give their feedback/suggestions regarding the service provided by the app and it lets the developers know what functionalities are to be added from time to time on a regular basis . Users rate the application by stars ranging from 1 to 5 inclusive of floating numbers ending with .5 .
User Characteristics
Users of this application belong to the community of IIT INDORE in the preliminary stage of the app. Users need to enter the details and know the details at any point of time , mentioned in the section of 2.2.They need to go to the city or some other tourist spots present in the vicinity of IIT INDORE . For that, they need to know where and when maximum number of passengers are using a particular automobile and list of groups of people who are ready to accommodate more people. People needing to use the pooling service will only use the application. They may also be ready to leave from the place
App Requirements
- Flutter SDK
- Firebase
- The device should be a “SmartPhone” , not a Feature Phone.
- Minimum RAM(Random Access Memory): 1 GB
- Minimum Memory: 100 mb
- Android Version: 6.0 MarshMallow
- Location Service: The device must have a GPS(Global positioning system) receiver hardware installed in it.
- Internet Connection: An active internet connection is a must to use this application.