Rafidah Md Noor, Muhammad Umair Munir, Ismail Ahmedy, Nur’ain Alang, Mohd Yamani Idna Bin Idris , Mahi Uddin and Nauman Akram
Keywords: car pooling, sustainable mobility, green environment, smart system
Abstract: Increased in college/university populations, resulting in insufficient public transportation facilities. Staff members mostly prefer to use their own vehicles to commute to any event or meeting inside the campus rather than an alternative method. This leads to the problem such as an increasing number of vehicles traffic, parking problems, fuel combustion, destruction of natural resources, environmental pollution, health inequalities and global warming etc. To overcome this problem, an application “UM Ride Share” is developed to promote the modes of transportation inside the university campus. The application is targeted to the staff members inside the University of Malaya (UM). This application consists of two parts. First part is Web-Based Application where staff members can initiate any meeting and invite different academic/staff members for the created meeting/event who seek for the vehicle to share or offer his/her vehicle for a ride. On the other side, the staff member will receive an invitation email and corresponds as he/she is sharing the ride to other faculty members, or he needs a ride for any particular meeting. In a second part, a mobile application manages the functionalities such as changing ride sharing status, requesting for ride share to other colleagues, accepting the requests, communication between rider and captain, giving the notification, guiding towards destination through shortest route etc. This application has additional features such as reward points in promoting the effort made. If any member shares his/her ride, some reward points will be added to his profile, and later, it shows the members contribution towards the green environment inside the campus. It is an effective means of reducing traffic congestion, waiting time, wastage of resources and fuel consumption, improving social life, reducing the number of accidents and environmental pollution which in turn results in the green environment, wellbeing and improving the quality of sustainability inside the UM.
