Tourism taxi with in-car payment

Inspiration

Urban Ingolstadt with better tourism experience - Develop In-car payment taxi

What it does

To provide a seamless tourism experience to tourist in a limited amount of time, according to their budget, maximizing the number of places visited. In car payments is at its core, which will mostly be a B2B setup, that allows the vehicle to plan on the go, and pay accordingly or later, and bill the customer in the end

How we built it

This can be made possible only when many features in car is automated like basic travel plan, route optimization, dynamic planning, and payments. Without payments automation it will be difficult to give good experience, and optimize in time available, as user will have to do lots of transactions which may not be fast and optimal. Since European markets has restriction of two way authentication, and customer has less trust in E-payments, the customer has to pay only once – before or after the trip. The transaction will be performed between the vehicle operator account, and other businesses account on behalf of the customer, so only B2B transactions, where business have agreement for one way transaction.

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Better time utilization was achieved by eliminating waiting time. Larger number of spots and longer routes were accessible with dynamic planning and waiting time elimination. Costs could also be optimized based on prices of locations, but not included in current problem. Restaurants are also eliminated for easier simulation.
All the above factor can be included and better dynamic planning algorithm could be implemented for better results.