DRUM Web App:
IIT Kharagpur associate professor and students created the Dynamic Route Planning for Urban Green Mobility (or DRUM) web app.It’s like Google Maps but with the added feature of allowing users pick routes based on air quality and energy efficiency.
It gives users five route options: shortest, fastest, least exposure to air pollution (LEAP), least energy consumption route (LECR), and a combination of all four factors called the suggested route. It was designed to fetch live pollution and traffic data the moment a user entered a route instead of pulling data at intervals. It determines routes using GraphHopper, a Java-based routing library that generates multiple options, while fetching real-time traffic updates from Mapbox.The results showed that shorter or faster routes often passed through polluted zones, offsetting time or distance gains.
