According to the University of California, one of the leading causes in modern global warming are greenhouse gas emissions, causing damage to the ozone layer. These emissions come from a variety of sources, including (but not limited to) power usage, agriculture, industry, and transportation. In order to mitigate the effects of carbon emissions in the transportation sector, I built an application that tracks walking, cycling or carpooling during a commute. Each day, when a person arrives at their destination, their app logs their distance and mode of travel into the database. The app then uses this data and estimate how much CO2 they emitted compared to driving an average-efficiency vehicle. An interface allows users to access a circular display of their personal CO2 reductions.  Users are pitched against other users in their area, school, or workplace, and participate in a friendly competition with friends or colleagues to gain rewards or benefits at the end of the week or month based on how far they sustainably traveled.

While developing the app, I ran into several roadblocks that prevented me from creating my ideal app. After completing the ServiceNow (required app builder) walkthroughs, it became clear that creating an automatic mapping function would not be possible due to the constraints of the software. Also, with my limited knowledge of ServiceNow, it would have been difficult to create a functional social feature for carpooling. For an updated prototype, I decided to have users manually log their own travels, and completely omitted the social feature (although the leaderboard still had a social function). After meeting with a technician from ServiceNow, I also utilized a use-case scenario to get a better understanding of how the app would function within ServiceNow (see above).