Food truck project
Background
Boston food truck project
Status Quo
For this project, the team worked closely with the City of Boston to improve efficiency on processes related to food truck operations in Boston.
The City of Boston Food Initiatives oversees the operation of all food trucks vending in Boston. Up to the time of the project, most of the department's processes for food trucks had been done manually -- with over 80 food trucks and 330 shift slots per week, these procedures were time consuming and prone to error.
Structure
Crafted with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as front end, Java Servlet and PostgreSQL as back end and database, the client app dynamically displays and updates data in the backend database.
Through web socket on Tomcat 8, administrator app is able to control and communicate with client-side apps fluently.
Description
a brief description on the functions
*the registeration page of client app.
Client-side app
The client-side app used by food truck owners have two functions: display the current shifts chosen by the trucks for the first year and allow truck owners to choose shifts from available shifts.
Before their turn to choose shifts, truck owners would be waiting while checking their currently assigned shifts for the new calendar year. owners with multiple trucks can check schedules for different trucks by swiping left or right.
Clients will be notified one before and at the instance of their turn that their turn is close.
Administrator app
Administrator app allows the city administrators to start each round of selection process and output the final result from database to a calendar feed that allows future output to the city's website.
Our Team
Gal Barak
James Zexi Liu
Jack Tianjie Zhong
