Containerized Microservices Platform for School Transport Management
Project Overview
Rihlaty Ride is a smart school transport management platform designed to improve safety, visibility, communication, and operational efficiency in school transportation. The system connects three main actors: parents, drivers, and schools.
Parents can track the school bus in real time and receive notifications about departures, arrivals, delays, and incidents. Drivers are supported with optimized routes, student lists, and tools to report boarding and drop-off actions. Schools benefit from a complete management dashboard that centralizes buses, drivers, students, payments, alerts, and statistics.
The project aims to guarantee student safety, simplify transport management, and optimize routes through intelligent technologies and structured system design.
Containerized Microservices Architecture
The platform is not a single application but a set of independently deployable services, each packaged as its own Docker image. That decision came from the workload itself: real-time position tracking, route optimization and billing have very different runtime characteristics, and forcing them into one process would mean scaling all three to satisfy the most demanding one.
- Service boundaries follow the domain: fleet and transport management, real-time tracking and notifications, school administration and billing, and route optimization each own their data and expose a REST contract.
- Polyglot by design: ASP.NET Core for the transactional services, Spring Boot for school and billing, and Python for the route optimization service, which lives closest to the algorithmic work. Containers make that heterogeneity an implementation detail rather than a deployment problem.
- One image per service, built from its own Dockerfile with pinned base images, so a build produces the same artifact regardless of which developer machine ran it.
- The whole stack runs locally from a single compose file, including the database, which removes the multi-day environment setup that usually greets a new contributor.
- Real-time delivery over SignalR, with the tracking service pushing position and status updates to parents rather than clients polling for them.
Service topology: Angular clients, an API gateway exposing REST and SignalR, and four containerized services over per-service schemas.
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