Detailed description (English): The objective of the company is to provide a valuable option in areas where public transportation is often insufficient and highly subsidised. These are residential suburbs of large cities, business parks, airports or small villages. The platform can be applied to enhance accessibility for special communities like school students or commuters with physical disabilities.
The Shotl platform consists in three applications working seamlessly together:
(1) Passenger App (available for iOS and Android): Users are able to submit a trip request in seconds. After selecting the number of passengers and typing in the addresses of origin and destination, the app provides an accurate pick-up time and the estimated time of arrival.
(2) Driver App (available for iOS and Android): It guides and allows drivers to navigate to the pick-up and drop off locations. Thanks to our machine learning algorithms, we can always assess and find the most optimal route to take the passenger to their destination as fast as possible, match shared routes and vehicles, optimizing waiting times and journeys for all passengers.
(3) Management Module (Dashboard): Fleet and operation managers have full access to a central console to supervise overall operation in real time, check demand fluctuation, manage vehicle availability, check the status of every trip, add or subtract new virtual stops, and check all past services and operations. In addition, the dashboard allows the controllers to record those requests from people who can not use the Passenger App and need to call.
Target group(s): The platform can be applied to enhance accessibility for special communities like school students or commuters with physical disabilities.
Objectives: The objective of the company is to provide a valuable option in areas where public transportation is often insufficient and highly subsidised.
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