Pervasive Car Pooling System using Push Strategy Design

Car-pooling is a possible solution to lack of
transportation convenience faced by Universiti
Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) community. The
remote location of the university creates the need
to travel very occasionally in order to run
errands. Public transport is scarce and often
requires transits to be made. Observation
indicates the popular mode of transport in UTP is
by car but often with vacant passenger seats.
Car-pooling has potential to be popularized.
Obstacles are difficulty of offering and finding
rides especially within a short-notice. Existing
systems are mostly just forums or data input and
retrieval systems. The proposed system finds
matching rides automatically everytime there is a
new request or offer entry and inform both
parties immediately using push strategy. This
paper discusses the underlying pervasive
technology to make carpooling application more
practical.