RoadHawk

Dashboard For Government Officials (1)
Dashboard For Government Officials (2)
Dashboard For Government Officials (3)

Inspiration

It is both expensive and time consuming for local and state governments to collect accurate, real time reports of road hazards/poor road conditions. There are also major safety concerns for drivers when these hazards exist, and it is important to have a fast, safe, and simple way for drivers and government entities to communicate and resolve these issues in a timely manner.

What it does

RoadHawk allows users to quickly report road hazards and/or unsafe road conditions with just 4 simple large buttons on a Web App. This not only creates a simple interface for the user, but also allows them to submit reports in a fast and safe manner. Additionally, we created a dashboard for both the user, and local/state governments to track road hazard history and open requests, as well as log the resolution of those occurrences.

How we Built it

The front-end is built with JS/HTML/Tailwind/CSS and makes API requests to the Python Backend, which also talks to a dashboard built for governments in Node/Express/HTML/JS/CSS.

Challenges

We found it challenging to design a good user-interface for quickly hitting a button, and we found challenges with learning some new technology.

Accomplishments

We are proud of tireless effort to get this project to a spot we're comfrtable with, as well as the fact that we were able to meet all three of our criteria in having a fast, safe, and simple interface.