Hungry and riding the bus?
Find food that's about a minute walk from bus stops along your route!

Problem Statement

Few apps focus on bus commuters as an end user. Mapping apps and restaurant apps often include quick ways to see commuting directions, but bus commuters don't have a single, convenient solution for discovering restaurants along their routes. This is where Bus2Bites comes in! All restaurant suggestions are centered around the most convenient food spots on a given bus route!

Use Benefits

• Convenience: Pick up dinner at a restaurant along your route home
• Accessibility: All restaurant results are within 100 meters of a bus stop on a given route, reducing the walk time to a little over 1 min
• Discovery: Learn about new restaurants within a convenient proximity to the bus

Market Research

Cursory Google searches do not reveal any other apps like this

Data Used

• King County Metro GTFS bus service data
• Google Places API

Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• sqlite
• JavaScript
• jQuery

Run the App

• Seed and run the backend-api app on port 3000 (see /backend-api/README.md for details)
• Run npm install http-server -g and http-server -p 8080 from /app to run the frontend app
• Open your browser and visit the frontend app to see Bus2Bite in action!

Who Dunnit

Brandi Wilson
Erin Moon
Loraine Kanervisto