Hackathon
to develop a mobility app for the region of Carinthia
Within a timeframe of 48 hours you give everything in a team to turn this vision into (virtual) reality:
You travel to a destination using different means of transport (train, bus, taxi, car sharing, bike) and there is no need to buy any ticket because your mobile device will gather all the information about your trip, chooses the best option for you and registers each check-in and check-out in the different used vehicles along your journey accordingly to the distance.
More information and the legal terms and conditions you find here.
What needs to be build at the hackathon:
- A widely accessible system that only requires a one-time registration and a smart phone or similar communication device and a corresponding APP.
- User experience should be made as simple as possible.
- The stabilty of the system is essential and it must be prevented that errors are recorded whilst using the system (for example, by passing vehicles)
- The implementation of various providers should work easily.
- The investment in vehicles should be as low as possible.
- Users should not need to select any criteria about rates, location or route (no normal: one way ticket from Klagenfurt to Villach).
- The user should either press the „start button“ when entering the means of transport or automatically be registered.
- Data that needs to be collected on the phone and send to a central server: embarkation, disembarkation, the route, the bus line or train and the user ID.
- It should be possible to register more people (e.g. – you want to take a child with you)
- Monitoring bodies must have the possibility to check at any time whether the user regularly pays for the service or a fare dodger is on the way.
- Unfair use of the service must be prevented as well as the improper use of the recorded data.
Find here some additional information for the challenge concerning public transport system in Carinthia:
Also here you can find the SHARE files of the busstations in Carinthia.
