holyflapmat

Inspiration

Help people locate the best station to drive to in order to maximize parking usage and customer satisfaction.

What it does

• Batch user requests to process them together.
• Dispatch users to the nearest train station with available parking.
• Minimize overall travel time.

How we built it

• Bipartite min-cost max-flow matching to assign users to train stations

Challenges we ran into

• Frontend.
• Piping the technologies we used.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• The modularity of our code allows to easily add updates.
• Used algorithms knowledge in a concrete project.
• First Hackaton and a finished project at the deadline.

What we learned

• Frontend is pretty, but is a pain in the neck.
• Combine different programming languages with the console and output files.
• Google Maps API and CFF API.

What's next for holyflapmat

• Advanced user batching according to deadlines and timetable.
• Car sharing according to users car itinerary to the station.
• More preferences for more customization.

Built With

• c++
• html
• javascript
• makefile
• python
• shell