Joshua ObayoriAndrew German

Renny AntoRicky Stallard

We are a group of year 9 students who attend Sutton Grammar School. We were introduced to the competition

(with skills that were taught to us by our computing teacher), but eventually we were keen to succeed in the

competition. All of our planning and preparation was based around Sutton, as this is where the school was. There are also nearby bus stops and a nearby train station, which

influenced the choice of app.

Some people when taking a journey need to travel in 2 different ways, like taking the train then the bus. The

problem that they may run into is that as the 2 different journey conduits they take are managed by 2 different people, thus causing there to not be a universal travel

manager.

We had to ask ourselves, how could we develop a program that can formulate a working journey plan, across various

platforms?

The genuine problem is that people do not know when to actually leave to go somewhere; they have so many different apps, for every kind of transport, but it would waste time to sit down and make a

journey plan.

Our team is developing a mobile app to combine different ways and platforms of transport to make peoples journeys safer and faster. This means that they have more time for

other necessities because of the pure simplicity of the app, despite how helpful it can be.

Overall, what we have a learnt about our users is that

they like the simplest and most basic to operate technology that works. This is evident everyday life, with the

development of speech recognizing phones and even self driving cars. This is what we will try to deliver.

Our competitors would be the journey planner on the tfl site, but our main competitor is google maps. However they do not solve the problem fully for 3 main reasons:

• You can not save your journey plans• They do not show delays

• They are not personal and can not be personalised

Our app combines all the ways your journey can go, into one app. It

manages your journeys across trams, buses, and trains. Our main feature that we try to specialize in are the user profiles, which can be

accessed and changed by the click of a button.

The app flows well, as the app is simple and easy to use. The feedback we got was that it was good, and it could be better if we made it global, as people have to have a lot of

different apps for every journey they make.

The first feature that our app incorporates is the ability to connect your journeys onto one platform, one app, one

device ; your phone.

The second feature is the ‘recent’ menu, which allows you to look back on the

journeys you have taken, which makes your journey fore fluid and simple.

Finally, our last core feature is the alert setting, which allows your phone to notify

you when to leave. This can be fulfilled using the GPS technology utilized in our

app.

This idea is technically feasible, as it is a simple but effective way of travelling. However, our app relies heavily

on the data supplied, because we need to collect a database of all the times for the 3 different modes of

transport, as well as the location of the stops. We also need to have a live update on delays; however, many services

have achieved some of these ideals.

We are planning to have two versions of the app :• Lite - Free

• Premium – £0.99

If our app is successful then we are planning to gradually increase the price of our premium app, as the customer demand may lead to

more profit being produced.

Our three core marketing strategies will be to advertise them in or

around transport stops, as the daily commuters are our target market.

We may also (if we have funding) advertise it on transport sites and apps like TFL or Google. Finally, the last marketing activity would be to allow people to trial the app in a booth or on a stand, so they can

evaluate the app.