VehiCO2

Saving the environment one trip at a time 🌳

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🚌 VehiCO 🚌

Saving the environment one trip at a time 🌳

VehiCO (pronounced Vehicle) is a webapp that aims to help users be more environmentally-conscious and make informed decisions by comparing the CO2 emission of different transportation modes for their trip. We also encourage users to take actions and contribute to sustainability efforts by providing a convenient way for them to neutralize their emission by donating to plant trees.

⭐ How It Works

Input your origin and destination addresses 📍

We support address autocomplete for your input!

View Map Route and Trip Report for different transportation modes 🚴‍

You can view the distance, travel duration, and CO2 emission (in ton) based on your trip's origin and destination. To put your trip's CO2 emission into perspective, we also provided a chart comparing your trip's emission with other contexts! Once you decide on the transportation mode of your choice, you can get more detailed directions and routing by selecting Get Directions.

Neutralize your trip's carbon emission with an offset donation 🌲

In addition to helping you make more informed decisions of your choice of transportation mode, we also provided a convenient way for you to offset your carbon emission by donating to climate change organizations to plant trees!

🔨 How We Built It:

  • Frontend: Image Image

  • Backend: Image Image

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  • Deployment: Image Image

🤔 Challenges we ran into

  • The map APIs that we were planning on using were either limited by cost, or didn't provide sufficient functionalities that fit our use case. We had to integrate multiple different APIs for various aspects of the app.

💪 Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • We spent a lot of time polishing our UI, and we're proud of how it turned out
  • We have a full-fletched app deployed, ready to be used!

🎯 What's next for VehiCO

  • Add user accounts to store and display data about a user's cumulative carbon emission and donation history
  • Add an option for carpooling and integrate external API to request carpool rides

Made with 💚 by Chau Vu and Dipanwita Guhathakurta in Team HackSparrows 🐤 (Pod 1.1.2) during Sprint 5 of the MLH Fellowship Explorer Batch, Fall 2020.

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