UiTM Share Ride: Requirements Validation, Design and Development of a Campus Ride-Sharing Mobile Application

Abstract

The excessive number of cars entering university campus and limitation of parking areas have resulted in difficulty of finding parking spaces for many university staff and students. It is a typical issue occurring in most of university campuses all around the world. Carpooling or ride-sharing is viewed as the practical approach to solve this problem. The suggestion to share rides will lessen the amount of vehicles entering university campuses thus reducing parking space problem and decrease fuel emission for a cleaner and healthier environment. Thus, development of a campus ride-sharing mobile application will be a good medium for university staff and students to share their rides and solve this pressing issue in many campuses. This research has attempted to validate the system requirements for UiTM Share Ride mobile application, followed by designing and developing the mobile application using Android platform for UiTM’s staff and students. Four phases have been undertaken in order to complete the research, which are preliminary study, requirements validation, user design, and followed by application construction. The outcome is a UiTM Share Ride mobile application, which can manage ride sharing requests among passengers and drivers in UiTM communities that will eventually solve the issue of congestion in the university campus.