The Development of LIDI: A Web-Based Car Rent Marketplace Application in Sidoarjo, Indonesia

Abstract

The common problem encountered by a car rental company is the transaction inefficiency. Only to know the car's availability, customers need to call by phone or coming directly to the rental company one-by-one. So, it is considered time-consuming. Whereas, the company could make use of the internet to make the transaction simpler. In this paper, a car rent marketplace application which is called LIDI developed to face that problem. To gain the high accessibility, the development of LIDI uses the responsive web principle so that users can access the application, both in a desktop or mobile environment. Its development phase consisting of requirement analysis, system design, implementation, and testing. The requirement analysis is carried out by collecting the rental data and analyzing the user needs. The system design will model the requirements into the diagrams. The implementation will transform the design into runnable codes utilizing an MVC framework. The opportunity is given to the rental companies and the customers in Sidoarjo, Indonesia to try the application as a part of the testing phase. The acceptance test's result shows that the application is feasible to be generally released.