Easytrike: Tricycle Booking and Dispatching Service Mobile Application

Abstract

Tricycle booking services using smart phones have recently gained attention to address traffic congestion and sustainability. Riding tricycles is an important part of the lives of Filipino commuters and the mobile app booking and dispatching system is a way of making tricycles a part of the Filipino riding culture. This paper presents the development of EasyTrike, whose objectives are to determine the passenger preferences, develop a tricycle booking and dispatching service application, and evaluate its level of usability. Research methods like descriptive and developmental were used to gather the preferences of 60 passengers and 60 drivers through Validation Board and were used to develop the EasyTrike using Mobile Application Development Life Cycle model respectively. The researcher used HTML5, CSS, MySQL, PHP and integrating Google Map API to determine the location of the passenger and driver. The validation board tool was used to track the progress of the researcher in the development of EasyTrike application while validating them. The EasyTrike Android application was developed using the Mobile Application Development Life Cycle to make people embrace technology in booking a tricycle. The application makes it easier for the tricycle drivers to cater to its current customers and also top reach out to newer ones. The respondents agreed that the developed EasyTrike application was usable (3.97) in booking a tricycle. The main purpose of this study was to develop an Android application that enables residents of Agoo and San Fernando City, La Union to easily book a tricycle.