ZipZoom

Overview

The global pandemic COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has greatly affected people’s health and safety. The virus can damage one's respiratory system and potentially cause suffocation and other complications. While some patients have recovered from the infection through their own immune systems’ responses, there still hasn’t been any vaccination or cure that’s been clinically proven effective. As for now, our best defense against this global pandemic is through social distancing and restricting the movements of potential virus carriers.

The air transportation industry has been greatly afflicted by the pandemic. With lockdowns, travel restrictions, and the fear factor of being exposed to the virus in public, the airline industry has lost more than 314 billion dollars in revenue as the passenger volume dropped more than 50% in the past three months.

In order to help the passengers not only feel safe but also be safe to travel by air again, Transportation – Team 2 developed a revolutionary solution, an app that generates an airport itinerary to direct passengers through the check-in & boarding process as efficiently and safely as possible, anticipating possible flight delays, gate changes and the least crowded path to your destination. This app can help the passengers to avoid crowded areas at the airports to enable social distancing, thus to establish confidence in air travel again. Welcome to Zipzoom.

Team Members

Adrienne Rudolph - Junior at Purdue University, majoring in aerospace engineering. Member of pro squad and worked on app workflow and wireframe as well as designed the logo.

Aidan Miller - Senior at Indiana University majoring in computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence. Member of the pro squad and developed the front end of the app as well as some aspects of the back end.

Daniel Willey – Junior Mechanical Engineer at the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. Member of the go squad and worked with the Go Squad to develop the Environment Assessment, Value Propositions, and Business Model Canvas.

Donna Tin Sun - Junior at Earlham College, majoring in economics. Member of the go squad and worked on conducting market research, constructing the business model canvas and presentation.

Dylan Bakr – Junior at Butler University, majoring in computer science and engineering. Member of the pro squad and worked on developing the back end of the app.

Jiyang Wang – Senior at Purdue University, majoring in aviation management. Member of the go squad and worked on the preliminary research, providing insights about the air transportation industry and constructing the abstract.

How did you decide on this customer segment, problem, and solution?

With the focus on the topic of transportation, we found out that the air transportation industry has been affected the most by the global pandemic COVID-19. The team conducted further research, including literature reviews and interviews, to better understand the challenge. After the lockdown order eased off, the general public has been hesitant to travel by air due to the fear of being exposed to the virus in the public, especially when long queue lines and crowded areas at the airports make social distancing nearly impossible. The team decided to focus on coming up with a feasible solution that can not only re-establish confidence in flying but also truly make air travel safer for the passengers. After brainstorming, the team decided on an app that could generate airport itineraries to direct passengers through the check-in & boarding process as efficiently and safely as possible, anticipating possible flight delays, gate changes, and the least crowded path to their destinations.

How did your team build and iterate on the solution?

The members from the go squad first developed an environmental analysis to help the team better understand the challenge the air transportation industry is currently facing as well as the new opportunities. The Go Squad later created customer personas to iterate the specific needs of the passengers while traveling by air.

The developed environmental analysis and the customer personas provided the members of the pro squad with ideas of what the key functions of the app should be. The pro squad members soon got on with the coding work and developing the minimum viable product version of the app.

The go team put together the business canvas model and value proposition canvas to finalize the business plan and other logistics of this product.

Key Metrics

Current Airline Industry

• $315 Billion loss in revenue worldwide
• 55% reduction in passenger volume

Technical Details and Diagrams

https://github.com/DevilBoy007/Transpo2

If you had another 5 weeks to work on this, what would you do next?

• Adding more and better airport maps
• Adding a well-built algorithm to help with wait time estimation
• Creating a computer version of the app
• Adding functions for user accounts and authentications
• Contacting and building partnerships with airports and airlines
• Conducting test runs

Built With

• java