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A cross-platform mobile app for navigating Mauritius via public transport

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MoBouzer

A cross-platform mobile app for navigating Mauritius by bus (and soon via the metro too!) based on public transport data and user contributions to OpenStreetMaps.

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Features

  • Shows bus stops throughout the island (currently ~800 bus stops)
  • Shows bus lines (currently ~5 bus lines)
  • Provides directions for walking & bus routes to your destination [in progress]
  • Calculates estimated arrival time/travel duration
  • Estimates time for buses to arrive at specific bus stops
    • Based on fixed schedule
    • Based on real time data
  • Calculates fare for your trip

Project Layout

This repository is the home of the mobile app as well as all associated services to run and manage the application, in a monorepo structure using PNPM workspaces.

  • apps/mobile-app is the React Native app itself made with Expo and built with EAS Build
  • apps/admin-cli is a small CLI tool made to manage the data on Firestore (for bus stops & bus lines) that's used in the mobile application
  • apps/website is the website built with NextJS 13 and hosted on Vercel
  • packages/functions contains serverless functions running on GCP related to MoBouzer and the MoBouzer GCP project itself
  • packages/shared holds interfaces/procedures used in both the admin CLI and the mobile app, hence the name (obviously)

Acknowledgements

  • This project wouldn't have been started if I hadn't come across the awesome mauritius-buses.com website where people can get routes to their destination and the buses they can take to get there.

    I personally used that website for years before coming up with the idea for MoBouzer. That was mainly due to the bus stops on mauritius-buses.com not being individually visible; bus stops are grouped by stage (a unit of measurement used to calculate the bus fare). Therefore, it is pretty hard to use mauritius-buses.com to travel to unknown areas since one has to estimate when they have reached their destination.

  • This project is tested with BrowserStack.

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