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@article{176265,
        author = {Abhishek Shukla and Sachin Singh Rathore and Shubham Pandey and Ansh Panwar and Naitik Raj},
        title = {EcoRide: A Real-Time Cab Sharing Platform for  Sustainable Urban Mobility},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {7903-7911},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=176265},
        abstract = {With nowadays fast urbanization, traffic congestion, rising fuel cost and numerous emissions of carbon have turned out to be a regular ordeal of city people today. Then, traditional cab services, though convenient, contribute to these problems since they introduce a surge of more vehicles on already congested roads. However, EcoRide solves this problem by creating a real time cab sharing platform that advocates for sustainability and reduces cost and community-based commuting. EcoRide is a smart, tech powered solution for the urban mobility sharing industry that this paper discusses, from the concept, to design to development. EcoRide takes advantage of up-to-date web technologies to give you a very good user experience regarding your activity centered on sharing rides in real time. It features basic features such as user secured registration, route matching through API that takes into account live locations and same routes, Google Maps API route optimization, live tracking, and multiple payment option. Its also feature the support for user customization such as selecting which ride companions can be based on preferences to ensure both comforts as well and safety. What is unique about EcoRide is that sustainability and smart city integration work hand in hand. It reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps decongest urban areas by encouraging the use of less vehicles in the road. Additionally, driver and passenger ratings qualities towards community, where users will rely on one another. EcoRide is the technical stack using ReactJS for frontend, Node.js and Express.js for backend and MongoDB for data storage. As for your tracking and mapping APIs, they are taken care of by APIs such that you don't have to worry about anything. It is scalable, secure and flexible for urban populations that grow.},
        keywords = {Real-time cab sharing, sustainable urban mobility, ride- sharing platform, smart transportation, route optimization, eco- friendly commuting, ReactJS, Node.js, Firebase authentication, carbon footprint reduction.},
        month = {May},
        }