m-isabel / purdue-ride-mapper

An app where users can easily and intuitively request or share rides

Purdue Ride Mapper (collegecarpool.us)

An app where users can easily and intuitively request or share rides

Project Charter

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

Created by

Evan Arnold, Logan Gore, Stephen Hong, Steven Leewood, Isabel Lee Li, Timothy Thong