Problem
Every year, thousands of drivers are impacted by snow storms and the snow removal operations of the city of Montreal.
In order to keep streets passable, the snow removal operations forces the city to tow many cars to make room for the snowplows. To maximize its productivity during these operations, the city wanted to develop an application to better communicate with its citizens on snow removal schedules and progress.
A hackathon was organized to propose the most appropriate application. Nearly 80 developers and development agencies accepted the challenge.
Solution
Our snow removal app was designed according to how a driver would use it. We wanted the application to be as uncluttered as possible for outdoor use during a snowstorm.
We therefore focused our development around simplicity of use and clarity of content. The user can directly access his current position, those previously recorded and, since the winter of 2019, report poorly cleared places.
This clean approach, keeping only essential features, allowed us to offer an efficient and very intuitive mobile application which won us 1st prize.
“A must-have in the city!”
Alexandre M.
App user
“Thanks to INFO-Neige my car is not towed anymore. Thank you!
Salim F.
App user
