Mobility · Eco-Tech Hackathon · POWERFEM

CityPool

Fill the empty seats already driving your way.

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The gap

Empty cars pass the crowded bus every morning.

Commuters wait for overcrowded buses while nearly empty cars drive the same direction. Public transport doesn't reach every district, forcing long multi-leg commutes, and drivers and passengers have no convenient way to connect.

Who hurtsStudents, workers, anyone without a car; cities carry the extra CO2, congestion, and parking demand.

The evidenceEurostat data puts average car occupancy well below 2 persons per vehicle: most cars run with empty seats.

The wasteFuel, parking fees, ticket prices, and travel time all cost more than people realise, every single weekday.

The solution

Match the routes that already overlap.

CityPool connects drivers and passengers whose daily commutes run together. Enter your route once; the app finds the people already going your way.

01Enter the commute. Start, destination, departure time. Once.
02Get matched. The app ranks commuters by route overlap and schedule fit.
03Share the ride, split the cost. Fuel expenses divide fairly across the car.
04Watch the CO2 counter. Every shared ride logs the emissions a solo trip would have produced.

Your commute · Aradippou → Larnaca Marina, 08:00

Elena84%

Andri67%

Petros52%

Best match · leaves 08:10 Ride with Elena: split €2.10/day, save 3.1 kg CO2e

14 kgCO2e saved this week €10.50fuel cost shared 2cars off the road

The one-day build

Matching over mock personas.

A head start: route entry, commuter matching, and CO2 tracking already exist as an early prototype with sample personas. The hackathon day sharpens the matching and the demo story. Route overlap uses shared district tags, not real geometry.

✓Route entry form: start, end, departure time.
✓Matching against a mock database of about 15 commuter personas.
✓Match cards with overlap %, cost split, and CO2 saved per ride.
✓Cumulative CO2 dashboard across all shared rides.

The 3-minute pitch

Hook: the morning story. Empty cars streaming past a packed bus stop, plus one Eurostat occupancy stat.
Enter a commute live and land two matches with cost split and CO2 saved.
Show the dashboard: "if 100 Larnaca commuters pooled for a year..." and close on fewer cars, fewer parking spaces, cleaner air.

Why it wins

Judges' scorecard.

Feasibility	Matching over mock data is very achievable in a day, and a partial prototype already exists.
Impact	Direct, quantifiable CO2 reduction per ride, plus congestion and parking relief for the city.
User-friendliness	One form in, ranked matches out; the value shows in the first ten seconds.

SDG 11 SDG 13 Software only No hardware No external data

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