For the Junior Web Award and Workshop on Climate competitions, we have decided to make a website that allows to compare the costs of travel and the carbon emissions of different vehicles when going for a drive.
We are the second year apprentices in computer science of the Vocational School in Porrentruy, nice town in the Jura.
Here apprentices who worked on this project.
From left to right : Steve Fallet (Professor), Alina Elsenhans, Méline Corbat, Cédric Pahud, Sylvain Meyer, Artiom Vallat, Jérémy Wermeille, Yoann Lehmann, Killian Kaempf, Bastien Wermeille, Julien Chappuis
At first we hesitated between various themes:
In the end, we chose the pollution and means of transport. After receiving several negative responses from companies to share their API, we decided to make a website that is used to calculate travel expenses.
Our main objective is to inform future users of their travel costs, and help them to reduce these costs.
The selected objectives were the following :
To realise this website, we shared the tasks out as followed:
| Firstname and name | Task |
|---|---|
| Killian Kaempf | Achieving the homepage |
| Artiom Vallat | Achieving the homepage |
| Translation the site in english | |
| Alina Elsenhans | Translation the site in german |
| Julien Chappuis | Integration of the Google Maps API and Javascript codes |
| Bastien Wermeille | Integration of the Google Maps API and Javascript codes |
| Jérémy Wermeille | Realisation of the page "Project" |
| Search content for the page "Good to know" | |
| Sylvain Meyer | Research data for cost calculations |
| Search content for the page "Good to know" | |
| Cédric Pahud | Realisation of the page "Comparateur" |
| Yoann Lehmann | Realisation of the page "Comparateur" |
| Méline Corbat | Realisation of the page "Good to know" |
We used Trello to organize our tasks. It is a Web-based project management application.
Our site was created with different languages studied at school as well as a new language PHP :
We also used the following plugins :
Images and icons are free. We found and purchased the images on the following sites :
We used universal numbers for our different categories of vehicles.
Here are the explanations of these numbers:
| Objects | Explanations |
|---|---|
| Vehicle prices |
We have set a base price to which we added a value depending on the type of fuel:
|
| Insurance | We have an RC insurance and a partial casco. We inquired with the car insurance websites to obtain the average price of these insurance |
| Registration | We had a few difficulties to get specific numbers. Since each canton has its own scale of cost, we estimated the average cost in Switzerland |
| Depreciation | We took into account a depreciation of 10% of the catalog price per year |
| Consumption | We did some research on the websites of automakers |
| Tires | We did some on the web. Prices change according to the categories of vehicles. For the duration of the tires, we took into account a duration of 4'000 km for two wheelers and 30'000 km for cars |
| Services | We did some estimates to calculate an average value, but this number changes greatly depending on the type of vehicle and the brand |
| Other | This category includes to the cost of motorway, parking place, etc... We did some estimates that differ depending on the type of vehicle |
Of course, all these numbers are customizable by the user.
For the realization of this project, we received some help from several people that we would particularly like to thank.
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Good visit ! And see you soon on our website !
