Swyft

Swyft: Safer University Transportation the Smart Way

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Quick Pitch

Campus safety has become an increasingly prevalent issue at Universities across the nation. Sexual assault has now gotten the attention of the white house and has caused president Obama to speak out on this matter. Potential campus victims need a better, more efficient way to get home and minimize the risk of being harassed.

Product/Service Details and Goals

Swyft is an application for campuses everywhere that have established student-staff transportation. It enables universities better ridership trends and data, provides quick ride booking access to students and staff, and allows campus police to track frequented pickup areas so that they can re-route their routines closer to students working late at night! Swyft hopes to keep campuses safe and further empower the university community!

Swyft will standardize the night ride service and programmatic approach for all universities within the United States. By creating an application standard to manage transportation services and effectively connect respective student bodies to available and affordable ride services hosted by their university (particularly late night services), Swyft can help optimize user-wait time after making a ride request, help map out student user activity to identify pique hours of usage, and better campus police surveillance routes to reduce campus crime and keep students safe. By beta testing at well-established universities, building consumer credibility, and expanding our user base, Swyft desires to dominate the developing, university night ride market. Swyft soon aspires to become a revenue net-positive company that, eventually, takes on the majority of university transportation programs.

How We're Different

The business lies within a relatively new market, as many of these late night ride programs are new additions to campus life within the university space. To clarify, night ride programs like SafeRide are free services (within the public sector and at universities) that transports students, faculty, and staff to their residence or vehicle within close proximity of campus. Swyft’s efforts focus on the creation and betterment of programmatic transportation applications to aid universities in data tracking and automation. By effectively connecting the student with the ride services available, Swyft hopes to minimize drunk driving, campus crime alerts, and student isolation (for those who live off-campus but utilize the service to enjoy campus life). Apps like lyft and uber focus on cities and are not able to be located at every single campus across the nation. We will be working directly with the schools safe ride programs to build our business and increase safety on each campus.

Team

Robert Greenfield - Co-Founder/Engineer

Industrial Engineering Senior at the University of Michigan  


As time matures, my role has changed from being a member of uniformity to representing dissimilarity, not just physically but ideally. My being is conventionally expressed through that which has been created, yet intricately maintained by my personality. I am an pro-twitter hash-tag-Facebooker who has pressed the like button to the motto “working to live” many times. Music is the therapeutic groove of my life that enables the 808 of my heartbeat to realize the tranquility of just being for a moment, yet unrestrained sound reminds me the need for some chaos. I am locally grown (Atlanta, GA), artificially influenced (by developing technologies), and completely wholesome. I am dedicated. I am poetically convoluted, surprisingly simple, and politically entertained. I am a Mac and a PC. I am a team player. I am passionate. My skills vary from advanced back-end to front-end web development, video editing, photoshop, networking architect, Raspberry Pi engineering, mobile application development, analytical research, business intelligence and research, and entrepreneurship. I love the projects I work on and thrive to master what I don't understand, seeking high learning curves and challenging environments.


Erick Gavin - Co-Founder/Operations

Recent Graduate from the University of Michigan 


Have you ever desired to be great at everything you do because I do every single day. I don't say this to sound arrogant, but I am a firm believer in "the limitations that you place on yourself are the greatest ones of all". I wish to be one of the most knowledgeable in my field, surround myself with people who are only moving forward in a vivacious manner, and help my community in the best way possible. I will accomplish these things by reaching out to those who strive for more just like I do. I am constantly improving myself to become a better man, scholar, and professional. This journey of self-improvement requires a wider range of perspectives and advice. My degree in Psychology has given me insight and understanding into research within a broad range of topics to effectively gather information, arrange data, extract key ideas and synthesize this information into reports that are comprehensible. My second degree in Philosophy has enhanced my skill capacity to analyze statements through intense writing This skill set is a route I’m constantly developing that helps simplify information that communicates significant points within a document. My years on the UM Track and Field team have allowed me to acquire the art of following a leaders’ personality and style while guiding the team to work together as a unit through personal strength and knowledge. All these things are brought together through my ambition, which I know will serve me well as I aspire to go to law school.


Philip Washington - Co-Founder/Marketing/Social Media

Pre-Dental at the University of Michigan  


When you want to succeed more than you want to breath, thats when you will be successful. Ever since I can remember i've had this feeling that I was meant for something big. This thought over time turned into a fire so powerful that I changed my whole life just to douse it. Unfortunately goal after goal the flames only got bigger, thus putting me in a never ending struggle to reach this vision of success that i've been so desperately chasing. I am not only a student at the University of Michigan, but also a valuable member of the track and field team here . These two facts alone can clue you in on how motivated and goal oriented I am. I believe that you can achieve anything that your mind can conceive through prayer and hard work, so the fact that i've gotten this far doesn't surprise me one bit. I want to change the world and bring positivity to where ever I go. I've been blessed to be surrounded by great friends and family that believe in my dreams and want to see me succeed. My journey is far from over, but I know as long as I keep moving forward and continue satisfy these flames, I will eventually reach the place i've been envisioning since I was a kid. I am currently a Psychology major here at the university, and plan to attend dental school after I graduate.


 


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