A Ride Sharing System for University Community

Abstract

In Ghana, vehicular transportation is the commonest and widely used means of mobility which contributes a significant amount to economic development. Despite these benefits, there are however numerous challenges commuters experience such as queuing, communication difficulties, missing of destinations among others. Private individuals who use their own cars equally encounter high fuelling cost, traffic congestion and other related problems. In this paper, an online ride sharing and booking system is proposed to enable owners of private cars to offer empty seats to other users. This proposed system design was tested in a campus environment to ascertain its feasibility in densely populated areas. The online booking system which is mobile, and web-based software application proved very efficient for user registration, travel advertisement, booking, geo-location and routing, online payment systems as well as notification systems to handle all necessary aspects of the entire booking and ride sharing system. Thus, this system substantially eliminates the problems faced by both drivers and passenger and help reduce carbon emissions.