Taxify's goal is to provide the public with efficient transportation across the city and ensure that the car is delivered to any place where Taxify operates within few minutes. In the future, it plans to use autonomous cars. The contestants had the task assuming that in 2022 this model of transportation would work in Tallinn for which they had to program algorithms for the efficient management of such a fleet.
"The assignment was really complicated, we had to work with different data sources, the demand data had to be linked to the map data from the road network and finally we had to deal with some difficult problems with the algorithm," adds Olga Kholkovskaia, a student of open informatics at the Faculty Electrical Engineering, CTU in Prague.