12th week - Team meeting, meeting with Tampere Logistics and Demola Jam#2

Team meeting @TUT (24.4.2014)
The main aim of the meeting is to prepare the materials for tomorrow’s meeting with Tampereen Logistiikka, together with Tero and Mobisoft representatives.
 Before the meeting, each of us are required to write down some points according to our agreed outline
of 4 parts, the basic introduction, the existing problems , the Mobisoft features and the benefits. This material also a good supporting document for the end-pitching.
 The basic idea we got from the draft introduction of our project is that, we would like to facilitate the
cooperation between TKL, Tampereen Logistiikka and Mobisoft. The aim of our project is to help the
municipality to cut the public transportation half.
For Tampereen Logistiikka, the cost for special transportation provided for the elderly and disables is on average higher than TKL and Mobisoft has their advanced programming skills but without fixed finance support. And via our researches from the end-uses, we find there are some possibility and benefits to integrate the 2 difference vehicles via Mobisoft’s techniques.
 And at the end , we have discussed some questions we would like to communicate with
different parties, especially with Tampereen Logistiikka.

Meeting with Tampereen Logistiikka (25.04.2014)
Supported by Tero, we had a great meeting with 'Tampereen Logistiikka' on 25.04. The representatives of Tampereen Logistiikka supplemented with Pekka Eloranta and .... from Mobisoft. Tero also supported the team in that meeting.
The most important message of the meeting was that the application we would like to develop is highly appreciated by the organisation.
During the meeting lot of existing solution were presented that we can use as "raw material". We got a lot of information about the operation of PALI small buses, the real time system used by the Finnish transport companies (even if they are still in demo version).
Our solution will support all the public buses (TKL buses), small buses (PALI) and additional to it but separated way the taxis.
We started to design the lay-out of the application which demo will be a web-based application (it is possible to use it later as a mobile application as well).
The feedback of the organization showed a high demand for this application which will increase the service level and also can reach cost reducing using this method (for example: perfect feedback for the company to schedule their routs "smarter", monitoring the public's habits, use their capacities accordingly and (re)organize their systems which results drastic cost decreasing).

Our next task it to figure out the physical lay-out of the application. Eric and Ilkka as the programmers in the team will develop the program, Sun and Gábor will support the processes.

Demola Jam#2 (26-04-2014)
The most important goal of this event was to complete the still backward tasks and to start to focus on the final pitching. During the event we had enough time to make our blog up-to-date and start to think about the content of the final pitch. For the result check our blogger site/demola project page and google drive folder. The event was well organized by Demola, excellent atmosphere and appropriate environment for effective work.