Team codersOnTheStormpresentGo By Green
Your journey to a greener planet 🌿
Go by Green is an Android travel app dedicated to providing directions exclusively through low carbon transport options. Users can view the carbon emissions for each travel option, promoting awareness of their environmental impact. Our goal is to encourage eco-friendly travel choices, guiding users to make decisions that benefit the environment. Users can also create an account to save their routes and access detailed information about their travel options.
Inspiration:
Inspired by the growing concern for environmental issues, we saw an opportunity to combine technology with sustainability, making green travel easier and more accessible.
We created Go by Green to help people make eco-friendly travel choices, ensuring each journey contributes to a healthier planet.
User Experience:
- Input:
The user starts by entering their starting point and destination into the app
They choose a transport mode between walking, cycling and public transport
- Route details:
The user can see step-by-step directions and detailed route information
Carbon emissions are displayed for each travel option
- Personalised features:
The user can create an account, save frequent routes and track travel history
The Team
Simon Hayden
Arthur Grimley
Katie Luc
John Howarth
Mark Harris
Léa Henry
Technologies
We used: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React Native, Expo, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Jest, Supabase, Render
We chose this tech stack based on what we wanted to achieve as a final product. Each technology was selected to best meet our project's specific requirements and goals.
Challenges Faced
Since we were all beginners in React Native, we had to spend time learning the framework.
We encountered problems with installing Expo, which delayed our development process.
Also, integrating and visualizing maps using Google APIs presented some difficulties.