Community transportation services app
Proposed as a new solution to Transporting children to school and after school activities with trusted individuals
A service that offloads the stress of managing dueling schedules while also fairly compensating the parents doing the driving through a matching system with trusted individuals, while offering automated tracking of mileage, gas, time and other factors using GPS (for monitoring where your children are and being accountable for resources used).
Pillars of this app include: trusted individuals (parents and vetted individuals offering rides); easy-to-read matching system; tracking system for kids to know where they are in real-time; time, mileage tracking allowing for fair compensation to the driver; drivers accruing credits for giving rides to use for receiving future rides or getting cash payment at the end of a pay period (e.g. monthly, quarterly).
Population Health and Accountable Care Specialist Supervisor @ UC Davis Health
More additional thoughts on this solution: it would turn informal carpools into a trusted, paid system; drivers already drive the route, parents could pay less than private transport; drivers earn fair, tracked compensation for miles and time; trust through vetting and community matching; lower cost because trips already happen; incorporates parent carpool drivers and on-demand drivers