TextMeBuss

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  Find all bus stops in a route

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  Text bus routes and stop numbers to get ETA of bus.

Inspiration

One of the biggest problems for students at UCSD is commuting. Missing a bus often meant missing your class. We want to have a way to check the bus schedules easily.

What it does

Texting the bus route and stop gives the user a time estimate of the next two buses.

How we built it

• Retrieve and analyze data from San Diego MTS in Python
• Use the Twilio Messaging API to manage functions related to texting
• Built a website for looking up bus routes and stops
• Built basic RESTful API in Python to send data about bus routes and stops.
• Combine Python and AngularJS to implement the search function on the website

Challenges we ran into

• Figuring out how to host our website and service with AWS
• Little, unexpected bugs here and there

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We completed all functions we intended to implement

What we learned

• Frameworks including AngularJS and Flask
• How to host websites on AWS
• RESTful APIs

What's next for TextMeBuss

• Optimizing estimations

Built With

• angular.js
• flask
• html
• python