Ready...Set...Ride uses Excel and Social Media

Ready...Set...Ride is a mobile application that uses GPS tracking to provide students with accurate, real time arrival times of Centro buses and shuttles. In addition to bus arrival times, Ready...Set...Ride will also provide directions to nearest bus stops, transit directions from one location go another, bus route maps, and alerts for each time the every bus is running its final route.

Ready...Set...Ride will  benefit from Excel when recording the time each bus starts running as well as when it runs its last route. Because the app alerts users each time a bus is running its last route, recording the time every bus runs it's last route will be important. After each week, the times will be averaged and examined for consistency and reported to Centro for improving of services. Additionally, each time a student searches for a route, it will be tallied and recorded on a spreadsheet to help management discover the most popular routes and ensure that buses are always available for the aforementioned route.

Students will also be able to create accounts with Ready...Set...Ride and their most frequented buses will be displayed first when they launch the app. Ready...Set...Ride will use Excel to create pivot tables to keep track of each user's information including favorite bus stop(s) - which will be systematically updated each time a new route is added to the user's list of favorites as well as make record of every user's log in information.

Ready...Set...Ride will rely on social  media like Twitter and Facebook to promote the app, announce  impromptu route changes due to snow or construction, changed routes, cancelled routes as well as give-a-ways and promotions! Finally, to ensure quality, relevance and customer satisfaction, Ready...Set...Ride will let customers review the app and get feedback from the customers through wall posts on Facebook.