Making carpools convenient and eco-friendly for campuses!
Most high-schools and college campuses lack a culture for carpooling, yet student transportation contributes to the 16% of carbon emissions that come from cars (EPA).
Carpooling is simply not convenient. Most ridesharers aren't comfortable sharing a ride with strangers. Existing solutions are too time-consuming to setup, riddled with complicated forms and menus.
Zwisch organizes carpools within school communities, where trust and safety are key. Students can request a ride with a simple sentence.
Simply type a sentence or two about your ride details. Gemini analyzes your text and matches you with a rider/driver if possible.
The Gemini 1.5 Pro API converts natural language inputs and creates JSON ride objects. Whenever a new request or offer is created, Gemini processes all unfulfilled requests and offers at once, then matches them based on compatibility of route similarity, timing, and your preferences. A ride is created on Firebase Firestore, and notifications are sent to both users.
Zwisch was started by two friends, Alessio Toniolo and Vedic Patel, who were tired of campus traffic congestion and a lack of easy-to-use apps. Alessio (18) is a senior at Marist School and Vedic Patel (18) is a senior at South Forsyth High School. Their home of Atlanta is notorious for an overflow of cars on the road and a lack of accessible public transportation. The carpooling solution, Zwisch, was designed to scale for schools, colleges, and even workplaces to mitigate bad traffic and mitigate the climate crisis.
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