Study and development of a regular carpooling platform in Algeria

Abstract

In Algeria, transport plays a crucial role in people’s lives as it is the major mean of daily commute. Improving this sector will have a direct impact on daily life especially with the remarkable evolution of the road network and the automobile fleet. In fact, the road network in Algeria has been evoluted in last decades, and becomes one of the biggest and densely road networks in Africa. This evolution has caused two main issues. The first one is the large number of problems generated by the increased traffic, such as traffic congestion, energy consumption, global climate change, etc. The second one is the demand for new road transportation solutions which has significantly increased as a logical consequence of these problems. One of the efficient solutions to deal with both issues is carpooling. In fact, the good exploitation of the unoccupied seats of private cars allows traffic to be minimized which minimizes consequently fuel consumption, air pollution, road accidents, etc. In another hand, it ensures a new mean of transportation better than many existing other means such as bus and tramway. This project fits in this objective where we aim at developing an application using new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to encourage people to share rides, which can improve road transport in our country. This will contribute in protecting human lives as well as the environment by reducing the number of private cars on the road.