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Paper Title : Peer to Peer Ridesharing using Blockchain

ISSN : 2395-1303
Year of Publication : 2021
10.29126/23951303/IJET-V7I3P26

Authors: Vivek Kekuda T U, Likitha P, Rekha B S, Sushmitha N

         


Abstract
- Ridesharing is how drivers share trips with other riders, which not only has benefits that of a shared travel cost but also that of reduced traffic congestions. Existing ridesharing solutions rely on third parties which make them vulnerable at a single point of failure and attacks involving denial of service. It also raises privacy concerns. The proposed solution to all this is via the use of blockchain technology. Blockchain, although is mainly associated with digital currency, the inbuilt distributed and decentralized nature of a blockchain is ideal to solve and overcome a lot of the problems facing traditional ridesharing services. The concepts related to architecture of a block for our use case, and the underlying implementation is discussed, along with the advantages and disadvantages. Various features like booking a ride, confirmation of a ride, mining blocks and syncing the blockchain with all the nodes in a network is explored. Strong algorithms like SHA3-256 is used for hashing which is pivotal to validate the blockchain. In this paper, we explore registering peers to the same network which mimics a decentralized blockchain in the real world. The entire solution is deployed using the FLASK framework.

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Keywords
— Blockchain, ridesharing services, Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3), peer to peer networks, Flask framework, decentralized application