A Smart Real Time Ridesharing Android Application

Abstract

Due to the rising population growth and rapid increase in urbanization, there are lot of problems faced in travelling especially in india. People are migrating from rural areas to urban areas in search of job and better lifestyle. This results in increasing population and thus resulting in insufficient transportation facilities. That is why people probably prefer to travel through private vehicles. This leads to problems such as increasing number of private vehicles, traffic congestion,increasing consumption o ffuels, heavy cost on resources, parking problems and many more. In order to overcome this situation very much different but realistic solution is “Ridesharing” which facilitates users especially employees, classmates, to share their vehicles with unacquainted person who is travelling to the same destination or nearby destination. Ridesharing reduces each person’s travels costs such as tolls cost, fuel expenses and distress the driver environment while driving. Carpooling or Ridesharing is one method that helps to resolve problems that continue to plague urban areas. This paper describes the architecture for a collaborative Ridesharing android System which is gaining popularity worldwide especially in india.