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Oct 2026
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Btech Computer Science Engineering
GH Raisoni University,Amravati
Btech Computer Science Engineering
GH Raisoni University,Amravati
Btech Computer Science Engineering
GH Raisoni University,Amravati
Btech Computer Science Engineering
GH Raisoni University,Amravati
Btech Computer Science Engineering
GH Raisoni University,Amravati
Btech Computer Science Engineering
GH Raisoni University,Amravati
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GH Raisoni University,Amravati
Students who commute to the same campus often travel in parallel without knowing it: one rider has an empty pillion seat, while a classmate on the same road pays for an auto-rickshaw. Informal arrangements made in messaging groups seldom cover seat approval, safety, or feedback. This paper presents RideMate, a web-based ride-sharing platform built for a single campus community. Drivers publish rides with a route, time, seat count and vehicle number; passengers search, request a seat, and wait for the driver to accept or reject the request. Once accepted, a passenger can follow the trip on an OpenStreetMap-based map using the browser’s geolocation, raise an SOS alert that captures the current position and ride details, and, on arrival, rate the ride on a five-star scale and optionally contribute to charity through a QR-code page. The application is written in Python with Flask, was prototyped on SQLite, and was later moved to PostgreSQL hosted on Supabase, with the Flask service deployed on Render. We describe the design, the database schema, the booking state machine and the implementation, and report functional testing carried out with driver and passenger accounts. Load testing and a field study with real commuters are left for future work.
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RideMate is a campus ride-sharing application that joins ride offering, searching, booking with driver approval, notifications, GPS tracking, SOS, rating and a charity option in one web system. Moving from a SQLite prototype to PostgreSQL on Supabase, with the Flask service on Render, turned a single- machine demonstration into something several users can reach through a URL. The work is a working design and implementation rather than a measured study; its value lies in showing how these pieces fit together for a campus setting and in providing a base for the extensions listed above.
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10/24/2026
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