Lim Huan Ying Eugene (FOE), Liu Pai(FASS), Marcus Duigan Xing Yu (SOC), Mathan Mahendran (FOE), Munnamgi Harsha Vardhan Reddy (SOC)
Academic Advisor: Mr. Lim Cheng Puay
Singapore’s climate action plan (2019) states that transport accounts for 16% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in 2014. Private car services such as Grab now have at least 26,000 more vehicles than taxis(ST 2017). Our project aims to reduce its impact by encouraging carpooling in residential college students when they hire Grab cars. We used a Telegram bot that group students via ride-hailing services and connect students that are intending to travel to the same location to carpool together. This can reduce emission by 75% as compared to when the ride was taken alone. With the feedback from 60 RVRC students, 93.5% of the students indicated that they will use our telegram bot service again. Hence, we are confident that the implementation of our platform is well welcomed within the RVRC community and will definitely lower carbon emissions.