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Based on the use of location and
available car seats, Andiamo allows a substantial number
of people to share car rides, using their cellular phones. This
system would, among other advantages, rationalize energy
consumption, save money, and decrease traffic jams and human
stress, and eventually make a significant improvement in human
life.
Lightweight devices such as PDA and
Cellular phones are ubiquitous and their uses has recently
extended traditional communications to the so-called Mobile
Virtual Communities which facilitate the collaboration and the
information exchange among mobile users that are physically
located in one environment or remotely connected. Therefore, the
ease-of-use is only realized in using mobile based applications,
which the research group of Andiamo has been always
focusing on and finally implemented. Meanwhile, our system is
accessible via lightweight devices (mobile phones and PDAs),
where Bluetooth technology is adopted to reflect users’
locality.
Rideshare is a method to reduce the
use of cars in a specific town or area. Reducing car usage helps
in turn to decrease pollution and prevent some other related
problems. This usually takes place by having a car owner who
uses his/her car to move from a place to another, and another
person who is interested to go somewhere along the car owner’s
way to destination, and at the same time the ride seeker is
willing to share the ride cost with the car owner.
This Rideshare interactions
constitute a reliable means of transportation for many people in
an increasing number of countries, and it is usually managed and
organized through a third party website that uses a web-based
technique to match Ride-seeker and Ride-givers requests.
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