Abstract

Nowadays, carpooling is one of the most widely promoted options for urban and inter-urban mobility due to a number of advantages, such as reduction of travel cost and CO2 emissions. As a result, many carpooling services and associated supporting applications have been developed with various technical characteristics. One of the most critical components of these systems is the backend infrastructure, which acts as an orchestrator of the overall system’s functionality, having as main objective the integrity, security and maintainability of the information exchanged. In this technical report, we present the backend infrastructure of the SocialCar carpooling application, a European-funded research and innovation project aiming to incorporate carpooling into existing mobility systems, by means of powerful planning algorithms and big data integration from public transport, carpooling systems, and crowd sourcing.