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Problem Description
Traveling is one of the most cumbersome activities performed today. The main problem of traveling is that a lack of knowledge increases frustration and inefficiency while traveling. This includes being in unfamiliar areas, going the wrong direction, not having any idea where anything is, family trips getting stressful and confusing, as well as the business traveler who is constantly on the go yet still can't find anything that they are looking for when it comes to food, hotels, and points of interest. Phone applications can be used to help alleviate this problem by making the person aware of the points of interest, food, and hotels that are around them but this leads to distracted driving. Distracted driving causes four out of every five accidents in a year and has lead to over half a million fatalities in the past year alone..
Proposed Solution
The Geographical Auto-Delivery System (GAS) will help to alleviate the frustration of a traveler and help make any trip better overall. GAS is an application that automatically notifies the user about relevant traffic and points of interest indicated in his or her user profile while he or she is traveling. The application allows for a traveling user to download the application to their smart phone and create a user profile. This user profile can be updated on the smart phone or on a website through the customer's login username and password. Within the user profile the customer will be able to choose their favorite restaurants, whether sit down family style or fast food, preferred hotel type whether five star Hilton or just a quick overnight motel 6, and the points of interest that they really like such as camping, monuments, amusement parks, or the like. After the user profile is configured the application will push real time, automatic, autonomous updates about points of interest, traffic information, road conditions, and weather conditions based on the Global Position System or GPS that comes with all smart phones. This push mechanism will allow for our solution to counter the distracted driving issue by utilizing voice activated controls of the application making it hands free and the driver better able to concentrate on the road. These updates will be sent out via a topology based design to inform the traveler about traffic that may be coming up soon within a certain range or unfavorable weather/road conditions and redirects them accordingly. Also, as part of this solution businesses will be given a web site to update their pertinent information to be input into our database that will be used for the Geographical Auto-Delivery System(GAS).