MartaRide App
A ride-hailing app for passengers with real-time tracking and scheduled rides.
The Challenge
- Driver location updates needed to feel instant even on inconsistent mobile networks
- Ride scheduling had to coexist with on-demand booking without conflicting driver assignments
- Fare estimates needed to stay accurate as traffic and route conditions changed
- Safety features had to be visible without cluttering the core booking experience
Our Solution
Realtime tracking layer
A WebSocket-based location service pushes driver position updates to passengers with automatic reconnection handling for spotty networks.
Unified dispatch
Scheduled and on-demand rides share one dispatch engine, preventing double-booking and giving drivers a consistent queue to work from.
Dynamic fare engine
Fare estimates recalculate against live traffic data from the Google Maps API, keeping quoted and final prices closely aligned.
Technologies
React Native, Node.js, Google Maps API, WebSocket, PostgreSQL, AWS
Overview
Overview
MartaRide needed a passenger app that felt as reliable as established ride-hailing platforms, with real-time tracking, scheduling, and safety built in from day one. Albos Technologies Pvt Ltd built the passenger-facing application.
The challenge
Real-time driver tracking is difficult to get right on inconsistent mobile networks, and the team needed scheduled rides to share infrastructure with on-demand bookings rather than running as a separate, conflicting system.
Our approach
We built a WebSocket-based tracking layer with automatic reconnection, a unified dispatch engine that handles both scheduled and on-demand rides from one queue, and a dynamic fare engine that recalculates against live traffic data so quoted prices hold up.
Results
MartaRide passengers now see driver location updates within a few seconds, scheduled pickups arrive on time at a high rate, and fare estimates stay closely aligned with final charges, contributing to strong average passenger ratings.
