Inspiration
We were tired of the bus system at UA. Currently, passioGo simply gives students data on bus routes and not which bus route they should take to arrive to their destination. uaGO hopes to reimagine how our bus system could work, with its optimal route search engine.
What it does
uaGO! is a reimagined version of the University of Alabama’s Crimson Ride system, designed to simplify campus transportation for students, faculty, and visitors. uaGO takes users information about current position and wanted destination and calculates an optimal route for the user to take.
How we built it
We connected a javascript frontend to a java spring boot backend. When running, the frontend sends requests to the backend for information on the current map of buses. The frontend can also send a request to ask for an optimal route given a starting and ending destination.
Challenges we ran into
As a team of new coders with limited experience in our first Hackathon, we were pushed into a new level of challenge. Throughout the last 24 hours, we have largely taught ourselves to make a frontend, connect backend to frontend, and come up with all logic through internet searching. We decided to use no help from AI to develop our systems, keeping all ideas our own and orig
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