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Carpooling is considered as a solution to address the current problems in travelling, in a
context of high fuel cost, vehicular traffic congestion, which leads to air pollution, health
hazard, vehicle parking problems and wasting of valuable time resulted in high
opportunity cost. Carpooling is the process of utilizing a pool of passengers into matching
vehicles, when there are freely available vacant seats in passenger vehicles, which could
be made use of by needy passengers, minimizing the per head cost of travelling in a
macroeconomic sense. The matching of drivers and passengers by maintaining a set of
data, can be implemented by developing information and communication technology
based applications. The drivers can post the availability crthe vehicles and the number of
vacant seats in their vehicles in this application and the passengers can search and contact
the relevant drivers on a preferred route. By matching these needs oftwo parties through
the proposed system, it is expected to address the above mentioned issues with a
satisfactory contribution towards the optimization process of cost of travelling in a
macroeconomic context. There are many carpooling systems in application in different
countries and also many research and development works were done in this field to
the quality of the carpooling systems. However, developing a system to assist improve
the passengers as well as the drivers, searching a best and ideal route(s) to reach their
destinations, with their preferred parameters is a complex and challenging task.
improved searching method, which makes sure that the
most suitable and identical routes, considering the route information
This research presents an
resulting routes are
entered by the passenger. This system will also generate and suggest alternative routes to
analyzing the lift request data entered by the passengers, for his the driver, after
consideration and then him to decide on the preferred route. |
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