SEPTA Accessibility Directory

Inspiration

SEPTA's mobile transit app has garnered an impressive hater base since it hit the app stores. The UX has progressively gotten worse with each update, and it consistently provides limited information about accessibility options at stations. These issues motivated us to create a directory to improve SEPTA travelers experience.

What it does

This app provides information about accessibility features, including photos of the stations and information about elevator and ramp accessibility, bus shelters, fare costs, etc.

How we built it

We built this app using Svelte, typescript, javascript, css, html, Google Street View Static API, SEPTA API, and Azure.

Challenges we ran into

We had a VERY hard time using SEPTA's API.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Using the SEPTA API to retrieve station coordinates, and finding a SEPTA API to retrieve accessibility features using the console.

What we learned

We've all learned a lot over the course of this Hackathon. Many of us have learned about Python backend, secure programming, and more from the workshops! We worked a lot in TSX and JSX, learned how to use Svelte, and how to use APIs.