Ridely Case Study
Ridely is a USF-focused carpool app that lets students both offer and find rides in one place. It matches riders and drivers using route overlap and timing, auto-suggests pickup/drop points, and supports recurring class commutes or one-off trips. Live tracking with route-deviation alerts boosts safety for students, while the admin panel enforces fair pricing and analyzes cancellations to improve reliability.
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Ridely is a USF carpool app that lets students both offer and find rides in one place. It uses smart route matching with auto pickup/drop points, supports recurring class commutes, and adds live tracking with deviation alerts for safety.
Project Challenges
Ridely was built to address the unique challenges of campus carpooling at USF, where students needed a simple, safe, and reliable way to share rides. The project required balancing dual roles in a single app, handling both daily class commutes and one-off trips, ensuring student safety through route visibility, maintaining fair pricing, and reducing cancellations-all while keeping the experience intuitive for a student audience.
Needed a single app where USF students could both offer and find rides without making the UX confusing or forcing them into separate “driver” and “rider” apps.
Cross-campus and home-to-campus trips required smart route matching and auto-calculated pickup/drop points so students didn’t have to manually coordinate every detail.
The platform had to support recurring class commutes as well as one-time rides (weekend trips, airport runs), and still keep matching fast and relevant for both.
To reassure students (and the university) about safety, the app needed strong visibility on routes, plus alerts when trips deviated significantly from the planned path.
While drivers should be able to set their own rates, Ridely needed guardrails like min/max price ranges so prices stayed fair, student-friendly, and non-exploitative.
High last-minute cancellations or no-shows could quickly erode trust, so the team needed advanced cancellation analytics to understand patterns and intervene early.
The Mobility Solution
We implemented a unified Ridely application where every USF student can act as rider or driver (Offer Pool / Find Pool), backed by an Admin Panel that controls pricing, safety, and analytics. The focus was on smart matching, safety visibility, and data-driven reliability.
Search rides fast with clear results, timings, seat availability, and per-seat contribution shown upfront.
Each option shows a match score based on route overlap, timing, and preferences—so students choose smarter, quicker.
Suggested pickup/drop along the driver’s path reduces back-and-forth and keeps detours reasonable for both sides.
Track the ride in real time and share a live link with friends/family for added peace of mind.
Get notified if the route significantly deviates from the planned path, improving safety and transparency.
Post a ride in a few taps with route, time, seats, and price-built for quick student workflows.
Create repeated rides (e.g., Mon/Wed/Fri) to match semester schedules and build consistent ride groups.
Pickup/drop suggestions help drivers keep routes efficient and avoid unnecessary detours.
Quick chat to coordinate pickup details without leaving the app, keeping communication simple and timely.
Drivers set their rates, while system rules ensure pricing stays within fair student-friendly limits.
Configure fair price bands by distance/segments so rates remain student-friendly and non-exploitative.
Track cancellations by user, route, and time to detect patterns early and reduce no-shows.
See match rates, empty searches, and popular corridors to improve liquidity and tune matching logic.
Review deviation events, flagged trips, and reports-plus adjust deviation thresholds as needed.
Manage verification, reports, blocks, and campus-specific policies so the platform stays safe and scalable.
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Successful Match Rate
Last-Minute Cancellation Reduction
Faster Ride Coordination
Trips Covered by Live Tracking & Deviation Alerts
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They helped us turn Ridely into a simple, trustworthy USF carpool app—students can offer or find rides in one place, with smart matching and auto pickup/drop points that remove the back-and-forth. Live tracking with deviation alerts improves safety, and the admin tools keep pricing fair and cancellations under control.
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