E-Rick: at IIT Roorkee.
Problems Specified:
E-rickshaws are the primary means of commute inside the campus. They have a large user base including students and residents. Manual rickshaws exist but are time-consuming and relatively expensive. The problems associated with the current system.
Digital payment is not accepted.
Unavailability of e-rickshaws at certain hours or at certain places in the campus.
Route of rickshaws is not optimized according to the different destinations of different users sitting in it.
Verification of outside rickshaws.
Difficult for rickshaw drivers to find rides, heated disputes between drivers. Function in an unorganized manner.
Prices specified by administration and amount that drivers actually charge are different.
Assumed Data:
Total no. of registered e-rickshaws in the campus: 40.
Rickshaw stands in the campus and their density at a different time (They mainly exist outside Kasturba Bhawan Hostel and Rajiv Bhawan Hostel).
No. of outside rickshaws in the campus at a given time (at Rajiv Bhawan max 10, Kasturba Bhawan around 5).
No. of drivers who accept payments through Paytm (about 1/4th of total).
**Participants can assume the data for any point not given above provided they mention it clearly.**
Golden Path
This path defines the main user flow on which the solution is focused.
It consists of the main path for which the solution is designed in the sprint and leaving the particular test cases.
Solution Sketch and Decide
Now as we had a clear idea about various problems and user flow, what direction to follow, which problems to solve for etc.
We entered Diamond model stage-2 where we have to draw out solutions individually for all the opportunities.
1. Availability:
Among the various solutions, we decided to go with “dynamic stand” concept which changes according to the user requirements rather than simple static stands that are formed because of the lack of knowledge.
2. Tracking e-rickshaws:
The minimum amount of e-ricks can be shown in the ‘map view’ of the user and as we will have the GPS location of all the e-ricks we can show the user if there is a pool of e-ricks nearby. The same information can be shared using ‘list view’.
Final Screens
As you can on see on the screen that we came up with an app which show the current location of the E-ricks and the details about it.
The user can call the driver and book it.
This was the simplest solution after considering all factors.