Centralized Carpooling System

Chennai,TamilNadu,India
Mrs.SUGANTHI.P i8cs064@sairamtap.edu.in

Computer Science and Engineering K.KARTHIK RAJA

Sri Sairam Institute of Technology S.MUTHURAJ Computer Science and Engineering
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India Computer Science and Engineering Sri Sairam Institute of Technology
suganthi.cse@sairamit.edu.in Sri Sairam Institute of Technology Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India i8cs055@sairamtap.edu.in
i8cs087@sairamtap.edu.in

G.GANESAN
Computer Science and Engineering
Sri Sairam Institute of Technology

methods can be used to solve them. One such solution which

Abstract— Carpooling system can be identified as one of will help in this situation is the carpooling idea which is
the efficient approaches to solve the problems that cause briskly expanding these days. The carpooling concept
or possess a major threat to the environment. This idea evolves in the way that any private transport can be shared
arises to benefit countries like India and China that when seats are available and make efficient and effective
subject to over population in recent times causing huge usage of it. To combine the people travelling to the same
traffic in metro cities as every individual prefer to travel place and ride together if not it makes no difference since
in their own convey. To overcome the above concerns the seats are vacant, carpooling is applied. The cost is also very
system establishes a conventional medium that manifests low compared to others. This indirectly perquisite the usage
more benefits than the traditional methods. As the of vehicles and their fuel consumption and directly stresses
system is not widely adapted due to the insufficiency of to scale down the growing traffic in metro and hot cities of
communication standards and inherence. To get the the country. The article has an integrated approach in a
better of this, The system makes use of the technologies centralised way. New alternatives like carpooling is
of communication and processing of the information developed based on the research techniques in the advanced
using: Geographical Information System, Forum, SMS, world that is growing. Carpooling is a transportation mode
for coherence this is mainly integrated in smart phones.
Processing from this perspective the set up provides
inquisitive methodology and attain the optimized model
that makes use of real time intelligence of map and user
preference for the mode of travel whether private or
public. This concept can be applied across other means
of transports as well. The system inspires people to use
shared transportation and making a ride together will
become indispensable in order to reduce fuel
consumption, cost efficient, eco-friendly and traffic
congestion.

Keywords—Centralized,GIS,real-time communication,carpooling.

INTRODUCTION
All over the world everyone are facing many difficulties which is based on the collaborative use of the private
related to air pollution, noise pollution due to the vehicles with a purpose to lessen the use of the vehicle just
development of metropolitan transport and society for a single person, it is basically a grey idea, but meagrely
population. Due to enormous increase of population in the applied. It is required to collect all the information about the
world, the extension of private vehicle , traffic blocks & pooler and the customer, it can be difficult to satisfy all the
pollution can rapidly occur. On the report of data on the users to shift to the carpooling. Clearly the public
personal car ownership has enlarged swiftly so that road
transportation's efficacy and contention can be improved
construction has facing traffic issues, outflow of harmful
compared to the use of the private transportation so the
fumes. As an alternative approach to face difficulties this
model of car sharing help to achieve those perspective ultimate goal of the system must be a clear opportunism and
impact and reducing fuel consumption. According to the expedience in order to use this service.The effectiveness of
census of the human population growth analysis India will the system has its perks in multiple areas as it diminishes the
have 5 billion people around 2030 which will be directly traffic resources and traffic obstruction and the fatigue
proportional to the number of private vehicles owned by emanation of the carbon monoxide, the cost of the journey
every individual and so the carpooling model will help in for the daily commuters can be reduced with the help of this
reducing these issues.For the mentioned problems and issues model.The following is a breakdown of the paper's structure.
the proposed solution using the ideology and different The problem and relevant literature are presented in Section

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2.The system design is described in detail in Section 3. The the trip with the driver. Identifying the route, as
algorithm used to solve the basic combinative optimization well as the time and place of departure and arrival,
problem is presented in Section 4. Section 5 presents the is necessary for a successful carpooling
computational results, and the study concludes with some route.amongst passengers Carpooling platforms,
conclusions. which are available, make coordination
easier.When managed by local government
agencies, it is free of charge, or you can pay a
LITERATURE REVIEW fee.to be used .
Mayor K. Thort and Rahul M. Lahaare[1] have Periodic travel (e.g., daily commuting to work)[6]
provided an overview of the Carpooling system and ad hoc travel (in which a user requests a trip
with SMS warnings, focusing on how to overcome from one location to another) are two types of
challenges that have arisen in the past and how to carpooling . In the United States, the term "casual
make it more safe. They proposed that it be used carpooling" is commonly used to describe a user-
for both intercity and intracity transport. They run form of ridesharing that involves three
attempted to broaden their user base to include or more commuters per vehicle. It saves time and
blind persons, who can utilise speech recognition to money by giving participants access to a high-
pinpoint their whereabouts at any time.R. Mazini occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane and typically tolling
and A. Pareshi[2] have developed a decision- savings . Looking at the annual percentages of
making framework for the use of carpooling. This commuting mode in the United States Carpooling's
information will be used to assist passengers in social components, on the other hand, are less well
deciding which cars to take.Swathi. R. Tare, Niha documented , despite the fact that multiple studies
B. Kalate, and Ajita A[3]. Mahapadi participated show that social motives are just as important as
by recommending ways to make the app more user- economic motivations among carpoolers [7].
friendly for passengers as well as drivers. They
focused on the reliability of the real-time system as
well as the safety of female travellers. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
BlaBlaCar[4] is the largest long-distance
ridesharing network in the world . BlaBlaCar was The system architecture of the carpooling System can be
created in 2006 and was founded in December classified as centralized model as the each seeker and pooler
2003 by FrédéricMazzella. It links drivers and reports directly to the manager and this model is simplified
passengers wanting to travel between cities and as centralized model, The seeker is the one that requires the
split the cost of the journey. BlaBlaCar has a global service of the pooler and the pooler is the one that offers the
membership of over 20 million people in 19 service to the seeker with his own private vehicle.
countries. Members must register and create a
personal online profile, which includes ratings and
reviews from other members, as well as social
members demonstrating how much experience they
have with the service, implying that those with
more "ambassadors" attract more ride shares. One
major flaw in this app is that it only provides inter-
city carpooling options, which our app aims to
address by adding intra-city commuting options as
well.
FolksVagn is a community-based system that
connects people who want to share rides. While
passengers receive rides for a fraction of the cost of
a traditional taxi, the car owner receives a portion So the idea of the carpooling application is basically to
of the charge. It is only available to corporate provide a platform that helps and motivates the seeker and
clients because registration requires a corporate pooler to use the application and provide a connection.
email address and payment is made through a Using the centralized approach provides a better security
prepaid account or an online wallet system. than a decentralized model as each user reports to their
To pay for the ride, there is a system in place. The respective reporting manager.
well-known taxi-hire app "taxi for sure"[5] for
Android was the first car sharing app to take the
initiative and create Carpooling for "Vacationers."
Those who are on vacation and wish to spend less
time travelling in order to save money. They started
it for a few specific routes exclusively, such as
"Mumbai-Hyderabad," "Bangalore-Chennai," and
so on, and they hope to expand to the masses in the
near future.

Carpooling is described as a non-profit shared

journey in which passengers share the expense of
The design of the model consists of many modules starting seeker to know the exact distance between the starting and
from the login and then goes to the Ride Scheduling The the ending locations and further enables the price prediction
rider can schedule two types of the rides a) Casual rides and that is very efficient when compared to the traditional
b) Daily rides; a) casual Rides i) Create new casual ride:- • methods.
The rider can create a new ride to be displayed when
passengers search for ride. The application will prompt the Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box.
information of the casual ride which consists of destination,
origin, meeting, departure time/date, estimated arrival time RESULT
and traveling preferences. • After providing this information, Participants in the pick-up and drop-off model, as well as
the rider publishes it in order to find passengers. ii) Check-in the to/from model, take turns picking up and driving others
trip • Whenever the rider or passenger arrives to the meeting in carpools to a comparable location in their own cars. The
point at the time agreed upon, he can check-in the meeting driver and vehicle return to the starting point in the pick-up
point. • The devices GPS is used in order to make sure that and drop-off model (for example, when transporting a child
the users are in the meeting point. b) daily trips are trips that to kindergarten), while in the to/from model (for example,
occur on a daily basis. • The rider can create a daily trip when driving a child to school), the driver and vehicle return
where they show the origin and destination, departure and to the starting point. The driver and the car remain in the
return times in addition to the frequency (daily and weekly). same area when travelling to work.
3. Get Paid for Offered Rides The passenger will pay for the
respective ride. The passenger can also get some offers like;
payment will be made at the end of the month

Proceed to your destination after dropping off the people.

model pick-up and drop-off, as well as to/from model. When
a. Search Ride: When a passenger needs to search a rider for the and to/from models return to their original positions, the
a destination, he can use a search form which asks for cycle for the driver and the driver's car is complete. There is
destination, origin, departure date/time. He can also specify a distinction between the to/from model and the pick up and
the travelling preferences. i) Search for casual rides and drop off model. That in a pick-up and drop-off model, the
reservation • When a passenger needs to search a rider for a driver and vehicle do not stay with the passengers at their
destination, he can use a search form which asks for destination, but instead return to their originating place.
destination, origin, departure date/time. He can also specify
the travelling preferences. When he finds a suitable trip, he
can reserve a spot easily and the app will send the send a
notification to the rider telling him that a passenger has
reserved. ii) Search for daily rides. • A passenger can search
for a daily ride that he can join. The passenger should
specify the departing neighborhood, destination, departure
times and frequency. The application will try to match it
with the best trip. If the passenger is satisfied, he can
register to the daily ride. c. Choose Ride: When he finds a
suitable trip, he can reserve a spot easily and the app will
send the send a notification to the rider telling him that a
passenger has reserved. d. Pay for Ride: The passenger will
pay for the ride as the payment will be auto deducted at the
start of the ride. The system works when the seeker requests Thus the proposed system proves to be very effective and
to join a ride that the pooler has set that is the start location has optimized strategies to connect the pooler and the seeker
and the destination so if the route is same as the seekers and gives a ideal platform to commute to the respective
requirements the criteria matches and they can share their location with well provided security and comfort, This also
ride to their respective destination. Internally everytime benefits the environment in various aspects such as
when the seeker sends the request to provide a service to a controlling the emission of fumes, controlling the traffic
particular destination the pooler gets a notified and if the congestion in over populated countries.As the system is
pooler wishes to accept this request ride sharing initiates and totally centralized the certain negative review could cause
further the manager is notified about this rides details and the banning of the seeker or the pooler which is one of the
monitors the trip which enables an improvised security for advantage of using the centralized model as the system is
both the pooler and seeker. Therefore this model uses this monitored by a higher authority.
optimization technique that enables the both the pooler and
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