Estudo de viabilidade para implantação de um aplicativo de carona compartilhada na Universidade Federal do Ceará do Campus Quixadá

Abstract

A large portion of students and employees of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) campus Quixadá depend on the bus of the institution, and often the same does not meet the high demand for passengers, causing a lot of inconvenience.In this work, it was carried out a feasibility analysis to deploy a shared ride application as an alternative to assist students and employees in their commute. Among students and staff, there is an initiative to make trips by shared rides, but this initiative is carried out informally. For this study, a quantitative analysis was performed to enable the identification of the feasibility of implementing a tool that helps the organization and management of shared rides. The feasibility analysis is addressed through a questionnaire in Google Forms. It was noted that 61.3% of respondents use the bus as the only means of commuting to the university, 90.3% consider the transport used to be bad or 87.1% of respondents consider that it would be feasible to implement another alternative for transportation and 67.7% said they have already used a ride as a meansto go to university. After evaluating this data, a study of the profile of users was carried out, with a survey of requirements necessary for the development of part of an application, generating an initial prototype, developed with the technologies React Native, Expo, Figma, Firebase and GitHub.