MARTA TRAINS LIVE

New app allows user to get info on nearest trains and all trains


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Application Concept

We wanted to provide a map based UI for commuters that want to see where the nearest train to their station might be. There doesn't seem to be any page or app that provides anything other than text. The MARTA API returns all trains, all lines, all stations. We filter that data for the user's station of interest and present it on a map so the user can easily see when trains might arrive.

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The Team

  • Daryl Bilderback
  • Limbert Bontigao
  • Gene Cannella
  • Thomas Gentle
  • Nic Branker
  • Tyler Maran

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Technologies

    APIs
  • developer.itsmarta.com
  • api.openweathermap.org
  • firebase.google.com
    CSS Frameworks
  • Materialize: materializecss.com/
  • Bootstrap: getbootstrap.com
    Other Technologies
  • Amazon AWS Lambda
  • Node.js
  • CloudWatch Events

We used the Materialize framework to get sideNavs and carousels. Here it lets us style the images on this page with a parallax effect.
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Our app scales because users hit the firebase db rather than the Marta API.
Only one entity - the AWS Lambda Function - hits the API.
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