Our project will focus on the creation of a bus tracker similar to the one on http://lextran.com/bustracker that will work on mobile platforms.
At the moment we are planning on creating a native iOS app as well as a native Android app that would allow the user to see the interactive bus map on their phone. Lextrans webapp is formatted such that
the map is difficult to use on a mobile device. Our app will fill a void that will help students and Lexingtonians to not miss the bus.
We want to implement a feature that allows the user to subscribe to a specific stop, at a specific time of the day, for a specific bus, and get notifications that tell when the estimated arrival time of the bus is.
The success of our project will be judged on the functionality of viewing the real-time bus routes, the user friendliness of the app, and the functionality of the bus subscription feature.