Fleet Emissions Monitoring and Reporting Platform for Transport Operators

Added Jun 2025 3 design docs

Transportation companies face mounting pressure from regulators, customers, and their own fuel budgets to cut fleet emissions, yet most operators cannot say with confidence how much CO2 each vehicle, route, or driver produces. Without that visibility, sustainability targets stay aspirational and compliance reporting becomes a quarterly scramble. The intern builds a platform that makes emissions measurable and actionable. A Python service ingests real-time vehicle telemetry covering fuel burn, mileage, and idling, then computes per-vehicle and per-route emissions, while predictive analytics forecast fleet totals and flag high-impact outliers worth immediate attention. A Node.js API serves the data to a Next.js dashboard where operations managers track trends, drill into individual vehicles, and generate regulator-ready compliance reports. MongoDB stores telemetry and fleet records, and Docker packages every service so the platform deploys reproducibly from laptop to production. The project demonstrates full-stack data product skills with a sustainability edge: streaming ingestion, analytics that translate raw telemetry into operational decisions, and reporting rigorous enough to stand up to regulatory scrutiny.

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