Uber Global Hackathon – Project Proposal

Team Name: Smoking Snakes

Product Name: SmartRoute

Category: Coding

Teammates:

Maria Costa: moonkhalifa7@gmail.com (Team Leader)

Riany Mello: mello.riany@gmail.com
Caio Farias: caiollo182@gmail.com

An introduction to your app: SmartRoute is an application created with

the objective of improving the mobility of transport by using alternative routes, to
reduce congestion, facilitate accessibility and open a new path for transport
functionality in the city of Uberland.

A description of the problem you are experiencing: Lately, in the city

of Uberland, there have been many problems in relation to congestion and traffic
time, this mainly on the main roads of the city and hours of greater movement,
caused by various reasons such as the large number of people existing, both by
the difficulty of locomotion that the citizen can have, after using public transport
and the routes that will be used to reach the final destination (which affect the
congestion during the route). The point is that, no matter how many services are
available in this area, many times we can not reach our final destination, that is,
public transport (bus, subway, among others) does not leave at the right stop,
which makes us walk more to reach our final destination, which consumes time,
and stresses a lot! Our challenge is to make all the parties involved work perfectly
together.

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 A description of the target users and benefits (who is it intended for
and how will it help them?) : The target users of this theme are citizens from
and who are from the city of uberland, regardless of whether they are drivers or
not. Tourists, switches, people without vehicles.. That is, we want our software to
reach the whole world that somehow uses some means of transport for your
locomotion. It will help a wide range of users depending exactly on their intentions
each day, but overall it will help shorten travel time by making their trips more
convenient, efficient and economical, which would also influence urban mobility.
The alternative routes would be a good way to choose other paths than the
standard one (which everyone uses and consequently will have more cars
passing in the same place, which causes congestion) and thus relieving
congestion on the roads.

A description of the status of your project (What is the completion

level of your application): The current status is incomplete actually. In the
future, more features will be implemented such as the interactive map, login and
profile settings, selection of payment methods, enabling location, the addition of
media for drivers to listen to during their commutes and important weather
notifications that interfere with travel among others. Completion level, 72,33%.

A technical summary of your app (how is it done?): SmartRoute is an

application that works based on strategy and probability. The system that predicts
the flow works as follows: Let's assume we have any number between 0 and 1.
It could be 0.53333. Knowing that peak times are usually early in the morning, at
noon and between 6/7pm, then the chances of someone by car going down street
A to the center for example, is 25%. So we're going to have a certain number of
cars going downtown. Suppose we have 1000 cars. Of these cars, which ones
go downtown? There's a 25% chance. If the number drawn is >0.25, it means
that the car goes to another street, if it is >0.25, it goes through street A. With
this, we predict the flow.

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Then the program would work something like this: "Where do you want to go?"
Then someone will say "center", with this, the program visits the computer clock
and sees the time, we simulate a flow and then the app would warn "Ah, this
street already has 236 cars (who has consulted the app) wants to follow the street
B? 100 cars and 500m farther" "or prefer the street C? 80 cars, but 800m farther"
however, one can find calculated routes in any condition. It may be that there is
an intermediate street, which will have 90 cars, and it is only 200m, the closer it
is and with fewer cars, better. Calculating everything millimetrically, dividing the
vehicles into different lanes so that the density is proportional to the speed of the
track.

Design guidelines (What design approach are you taking and why?):
The design approaches used were UX/UI, because in addition to being what we
routinely use, it's easy, practical, and lightweight to use, we think these
approaches mostly solve what's intended and encompass both the visual and
interactive elements of the interface, as well as the holistic user experience. We
also think it has everything we need for the result to be satisfactory for both
ourselves and others and both are crucial.

Ideal result (what you hope to achieve): We aim to achieve a significant

reduction in traffic congestion in Uberland. Our goal is to provide a more efficient
and fluid experience for autonomous drivers, making getting around the city faster
and more enjoyable. We want to encourage drivers to adopt less congested
alternative routes, reducing traffic on major thoroughfares and thus improving the
quality of the city's traffic. In addition, we hope that by alleviating congestion,
public transport will also gain more mobility, making it faster and of higher quality,
encouraging the population to use it as a viable alternative.

The ideal result would be a substantial decrease in traffic congestion in

Uberland, with a significant reduction in average travel time for autonomous
drivers. In addition, we expect to see an improvement in traffic fluidity, reducing
traffic jams and improving mobility in the city. This could also result in a reduction
in carbon emissions, contributing to a cleaner and more sustainable environment.

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Improved mobility would also encourage the population to use public transport
more, making it faster and of higher quality.

In these following photos, we have some examples of the app's design

signing in, and the home screen.

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And the graph relating the cars, density and speed.