Banana Transport

Banana Transport prioritizes the reduction of carbon emissions from vehicles by providing students with cheaper alternatives to transportation; matching students who would share rides and split costs.

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Inspiration

A common issue among students is the cost of efficient transportation. Around the same time of year, students search for people to share rides with to save money. Considering our peers' needs, our team decided to create the concept for an app that matches students heading in the same direction around the same time of day.

What it does

Banana Transport is an application that allows commuters from UCSC to match up with others to facilitate a better rideshare experience. Given a user's input of their desired destination and time of arrival, Banana Transport will offer suggestions of other students based on their similarity and proximity. If the application fails to find a match, users can contact students from a list of drivers and riders headed to a similar destination to discuss the potential of sharing a ride.

How we built it

We used HTML and CSS to build a blueprint of a website that would eventually become an app. It was our group's first time using these programming languages. To help us brainstorm the design of our product, we began by sketching ideas for the layout before proceeding with the coding process. To manage version control, webpage hosting, and collaboration we used GitHub alongside VSC Live Share and Live Server. https://github.com/ummrylee/BananaTransport

Challenges we ran into

We started with little to no experience with HTML, so we all had to do our research to begin the process of coding. Throughout our project, we spent numerous hours diving into documentation and tutorials to build our understanding of front-end development.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of being able to make a website that is organized even if it's not a finished program. Coming into the hackathon, we had one goal: every member would learn a new skill. We accomplished this feat by taking on an unfamiliar language.

What we learned

We learned how to start HTML and CSS projects and how to research new languages more efficiently. Building the front-end blueprint of a webpage meant we learned to incorporate styling with HTML features such as input and text boxes.

What's next for Banana Transport

We plan to have authentication backed by the UCSC servers to ensure every user is a student with to school. To add to this, building the server and back-end functionality of the web page would be an integral part of its usability. Banana Transport will continue to work on the website and hopefully integrate it into a working app that UCSC students use.

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