UniCar is a web application for managing car pools.
With UniCar it is possible to manage all aspects of a car pool. Users who need a car from the pool can quickly get the informations about the available cars. Detailed informations about every car are stored, if a user looks for a car for special purposes.
Because the drivers have to fill out a little report after using a car (only about one minute), there are also a lot of analysis possibilities.
A few of this are:
- Who had a specific car at a specific time?
- When was the car refuiled the last time?
- and many more
The pool administrators are also notified for coming service events for the cars (technicals service, security services).
If there are cars that are buyed using leasing contracts, the administrators are also notified about arriving a cars maximum driving distance.
The system also tries to balance the driving distances of the cars. So if a user just wants some car, the system compares the driving distances (under different terms, e.g. purchase contract) and decides which one to reserve. So there is not one car used all the time and another that is standing in the garage for months.
The application is a plugin for the PHProject web application.
Its completely written in PHP and uses MySQL for data.