Joynride is a community hitchhiking app.
joynride is a project that aims to integrate a hitchhiking system into different communities.
Being developed for the Distributed Computing subject, with the guidance of professor Francisco José Monaco and the participation of the students, joynride aims to provide a platform where you can connect with members of your community, such as university students, and provide a system for providing free rides between members.
The project, developed by engineering and computer science students from USP São Carlos, aims to promote an application that allows providing or receiving free rides between community members, facilitating mobility and encouraging drivers to share routes that have already been planned, using micro-rewards as a way of encouraging continuous use of the application.
Encouraging the integration of shared rides between community members makes it easier to get around and promotes sustainable mobility. The app plans encourage people who are already going to make the journey and have spaces available in their cars to offer rides on a non-profit basis, but there may be incentives within the community to encourage travel.
Within the app, the user can be a passenger, a driver or even both depending on the context, offering or asking for a ride in exchange for micro-rewards in order to stimulate shared rides between the community members. The app design will be similar to relationship apps, in which will be possible to find available rides to reach the most frequent destinations, also providing departure points.
The passengers can apply for available rides according to their interests, which will display the number of available car seats, times, and locations specified by the driver. There will also be ratings of the driver, as well as comments on behavior and driving skills to provide a better experience.
On the other hand, the drivers will be able to see all the users who applied for the ride that they are offering, as well as the passenger's information, ratings, and comments. Based on that, the driver will decide who to accept for the ride.
It is also intended to allow communication between the driver and the hitchhiker via messages, specifying or negotiating departure and arrival locations, to make the journey better for everyone.
The users will be able to join the desired community through institutional emails.
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