Safe Path

Example Scenario 1
Example Scenario 1 Route
Example Scenario 2
Example Scenario 2 Route

Inspiration

Since the pandemic, hate crimes against Asian Americans have increased. This is unacceptable and needs to be assessed in technology, politics, and law enforcement to make an impact.

What it does

Instead of simply routing the most time-efficient path, our calculation also chooses the directions by avoiding heavier crime areas with an emphasis on preventing travel in regions with higher hate crimes. Our hope is this will reduce the user's likelihood of being attacked.

How we built it

We used police reports and crime maps to find high-density crime areas in NYC and placed them in the OpenRouteServices polygon, the stream level, to track the route. We used Twilio to text directions to the phone.