A far easier to use unofficial schedule for the Hawaii Hele-On Bus. Created for the House Student App Challenege.
Go Green. Go Hele-On. Go Online!
Stop fumbling with paper schedules and never miss the Hawaii bus again! Use
Big Island Buses, an app created in partnership with Hele-On. Find bus stops
near you, see live GPS locations of buses, and look for the schedules from the
comfort of your phone or computer.
A web app created for bus riders in the Big Island of Hawai’i. The app was
created to offer an alternative the the county’s
paper-only bus schedules. I built
the
initial version
during my 11th grade in high school, where it won
Grade Prize in Congressional App Challenge 2014, Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District.
For my senior project, I redesigned the app and began to work directly with the
County of Hawai’i’. The app was updated with an enhanced map interface along
with server rendering. Today’s version uses pre-rendering with Eleventy.
The program went on to be featured in
West Hawaii Today,
Hawaii Public Radio,
and Hawaii
TechWorks.
The app originally implemented the AppCache API to allow it to run offline. It
has since been moved to Service Workers, which became widely available some time
after the app was launched. It also uses the JavaScript geolocation API to
locate nearby bus stops and routes for the user.
The schedule data is located in a
separate repository.
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