TAMU Bus Route Alert

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  Screenshot of App

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  Code Part 1

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  Code Part 2

Inspiration

When deciding what we wanted to do, our attention gravitated toward transportation. Everyone, regardless of who they are, relies on transportation in some form or another. When using the bus route app, it doesn’t alert you if the bus close to your stop. This is especially inconvenient to those who are visually or audibly impaired since the application isn’t efficient in how it presents itself.

What it does

Because of the problems the bus app causes, we wanted to try and accommodate everyone in our solution to the challenge. So, our solution was creating a bus route app that can help everyone by notifying you when your bus is close to your stop using both vibration and notification. It runs by taking data from the transportation bus route database and coverts the time between two stops into a count down. The app then notifies you at the 5, 3, and 1-minute marks before each bus stop.

How we built it

When developing the app we decided X-Code’s Swift program would be the best since we were both familiar with X-Code’s interface. We then split the functions needed up based on sequence and put it all together in one project at the end.

Challenges we ran into

There was one small problem, neither of us had any experience prior toward developing an application. Because of this, building the app required extensive research on both our parts. Furthermore because the buses we wanted to use do not run during weekends, we used previous data.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We actually got a working app that does what we originally wanted it to do, even with some minor setbacks.

What we learned

We both learned how to program in swift and implement the code into an application

What's next for TAMU Bus Route Alert

We want to integrate this app into the original TAMU bus app, and even expand the concept of alerting people with vibrations to emergency situations. For example, the closer you are to danger the more times the phone would vibrate.

Built With

• swift