CarbonPal

Overview

Ever wondered what exactly your carbon footprint is. Or have you wondered if its really worth taking the train over the bus or an Uber.

CarbonPal is an website for tracking carbon emissions due to travel. A user can enter their vehicles, modes of transportation and trips and find out how much carbon they are emitting. Additionally they will be able to learn about the different emissions from alternative modes of transportation.

Data Model

The application will store Users, Lists and Items

users can have multiple vehicles and trips (via references)
each trip can have a vehicle in the mode of transportation category (via reference)

An Example User:

{
  username: "carbonCrusher",
  hash: // a password hash,
  trips: // an array of references to trip documents,
  vehicles: // an array of references to vehicle documents,
}

An Example Vehicle:

{
  user: // a reference to a User object
  name: "Chevy Volt 2014",
  company: "Chevrolet",
  model: "Volt",
  year: 2014
  MPG: 35,
  electric: false,
  hybrid: true,
  createdAt: // timestamp
}

An Example Trip:

{
  user: // a reference to a User object
  name: "trip to work",
  modeOfTransportation: "Bus",
  distance: 3.5,
  duration: 15,
  numPassengers: 2
  createdAt: // timestamp
  emissions: 30.2

}

Link to Commented First Draft Schema

Wireframes

page for creating a new vehicle

page for showing creating a new trip

page for viewing statistics about carbon emissions

page for viewing summary of user's carbon usage

Site map

User Stories or Use Cases

as non-registered user, I can register a new account with the site
as a user, I can log in to the site
as a user, I can create a trip and track the carbon related emissions
as a user, I can view all of the trips that I have created
as a user, I can add a vehicle to use for future logged trips
as a user, I can view summary statistics about my carbon emission
as a user, I can learn about ways to reduce carbon emissions

Research Topics

(2 points) Using Bootstrap
- I'm going to use Bootstrap to design the CSS of my website
- I will need to learn how Bootstrap works
(3 points) Use External APIs
- I plan to use Google maps API to help track user routes
- I plan to use other APIs to help provide additional carbon emission statistics such as CoolClimate API
~~(3 points) Perform Client Side Form Validation with Javascript~~
- ~~I plan to use form validation for login and entry for fields related to created vehicles and trips, I have already found some relevant information here~~
(2 points) Deploying on Heroku
(2 points) Using MongoDB-Atlas as database

9 points total out of 8 required points

Link to Initial Main Project File

Annotations / References Used

Form Validation
Google Maps API - (add link to source code that was based on this)
CoolClimate API

JacobLBaum / carboncat