College
College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Date of Last Revision
2025-05-08 11:40:46
Major
Computer Information Systems
Honors Course
CISS 451
Number of Credits
3
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Date of Expected Graduation
Spring 2025
Abstract
At the University of Akron, a large number of students commute to and from the campus. A majority of them use their own personal vehicles every day. I propose a web-based application that would benefit the University by offering ridesharing services for commuting students and faculty. This would be made with an Angular frontend, a Spring Boot Java backend, and a MySQL database. I would hope to allow this application to have users register and then input their schedules of travel, including starting point, destination, and the time of this transfer. The program could suggest groups of students to travel together in any way they see fit and discuss the price of the rideshare such as gas money themselves. The final output of this project would be a rudimentary yet functional rideshare platform that suggests pairings of students to travel together. I believe this could be a stimulating project to use to explore some of the basic technologies in use by companies currently as well as a functional program that could be looked at and even potentially adopted by the University if they thought it was suitable for the campus environment.
Research Sponsor
Zarreen Farooqi
First Reader
John C. Hoag
Second Reader
Tim O'Neil
Honors Faculty Advisor
Zarreen Farooqi
Proprietary and/or Confidential Information
No
Recommended Citation
Szijarto, Nicholas, "University of Akron Commuter Rideshare Service (UACRS)" (2025). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 2021.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/2021