UTransit is a hackathon-built transit prototype for the University of Toronto community, designed to unify route discovery, trip planning, and digital ticket management for travel across St. George, Scarborough, and Mississauga.

Built as a working prototype during a hackathon sprint.

UofT transit workflows are fragmented across separate schedules, route lookup tools, and fare systems. UTransit brings core student transit actions into one interface.

• Student registration, login, and authenticated profile flow
• Route browsing and route stop lookup
• Ticket wallet with purchase, listing, and delete actions
• Trip history API and frontend trip/profile/settings pages
• FastAPI backend with SQLAlchemy models and JWT auth
• Prisma schema + PostgreSQL migration tooling
• AWS deployment infrastructure templates and helper scripts

• Frontend: Vite, React, TypeScript, React Router, Tailwind CSS, TanStack Query
• Backend: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, JWT auth
• Database: PostgreSQL (primary), SQLite fallback for local development
• Data tooling: Prisma
• Infra: AWS RDS, ECS/Fargate, S3 + CloudFront, CloudFormation

cd backend
python3.13 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env
python -m app.seed
uvicorn app.main:app --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

Backend docs: http://localhost:8000/docs

In a new terminal:

npm install
cp .env.example .env
npm run dev

Frontend app: http://localhost:5173

• POST /api/v1/auth/register
• POST /api/v1/auth/login
• GET /api/v1/auth/me
• GET /api/v1/routes
• GET /api/v1/routes/{route_id}/stops
• GET /api/v1/tickets
• POST /api/v1/tickets/purchase?type=...
• DELETE /api/v1/tickets/{ticket_id}
• GET /api/v1/trips/history

.
├── src/                 # React frontend pages/components/hooks
├── backend/             # FastAPI backend app + routers + seed scripts
├── prisma/              # Prisma schema
├── infra/aws/           # CloudFormation templates (RDS/ECS/S3/CloudFront/CI-CD)
├── scripts/             # Deployment helper scripts
└── docs/                # AWS deployment and setup guides

• Full stack deployment: docs/aws-full-deploy.md
• RDS setup: docs/aws-rds-console-setup.md
• Backend deploy: docs/aws-backend-deploy.md
• GitHub CI/CD deploy: docs/aws-github-cicd-setup.md

• Live transit feed ingestion and real-time ETA improvements
• Better route search and stop discovery UX
• Expanded fare logic and pass management
• Production hardening for auth, observability, and error monitoring

Working hackathon prototype with implemented frontend flows, backend APIs, and database/deployment foundations. Not production-ready yet.