Text RIPTA (HackRI 2016 - Fourth Place Finalists)

Text RIPTA is a dual-language software project developed chiefly by Darius Strasel, Ryan Scullin (Python) and Will Daly, Lu Nathan, and Rafael Fernandez (Ruby) with Anne Wolfe as our design/presentation specialist, during the HackRI 2016 Hackathon.

This software allows users to text a stop ID number (bus stop number) to a Twilio enabled phone number and learn how close it is! (Relative to the number of stops) This uses the RIPTA Realtime API, which is standardised via GTFS.

• The Python-based implementation uses Flask and werkzeug libraries to consume the HTTP requests from the Twilio API which are then passed into data-parsing functions which calculate a result using the RIPTA real-time API.

• (Video credit to Anne Wolfe)