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Miritec has developed a multi-lingual, interactive and cross functional website for «Baku Metropolitan». WEBSITE FOR «BAKU METROPOLITAN» "BAKU METROPOLITAN" CJSC "Baku Metropolitan" CJSC was established in 2014 due to reorganization of “Baku Metropolitan” and "Azertunelmetrotikinti" JSC, launched by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan Republic. Main duties of Baku Metropolitan include enlargement of the city area coverage, construction of new lines, improvement of passenger transportation quality and management of metro facilities. To date, "Baku Metropolitan" counts about 6500 employees, and 1500 of them are engaged in construction of new lines that are to become important routes while getting around the city of Baku. The company structure consists of several departments, focused on various ways of Baku metro development. In practice, each unit contributes to the process of company’s improvement in accordance to international standards. CHALLENGE Baku becomes innovative and attractive travel destination that is due to being a host of international competitions. Reasonably, “Baku Metropolitan” faced a need to represent its services throughout a modern and user-friendly website, designed for both, citizens and overseas visitors. In anticipation of Baku 2015 European Games, a future website was also intended to provide tourists with useful information about sports facilities and ways to get to them. TASK To fully represent metropolitan services and its significance, Miritec IT-specialists were given a task to develop a website as a single tool to attract city residents and foreigners to its services and city venues, in particular, during the international tournament. “Baku Metropolitan” website had to carry an interactive map to help users get familiar with their opportunities if travelling around the city. In practice, the interactive map had to provide users with tools to set a travel route, check out its presumable duration, transfer stations and distances between the main points. In addition, the website had to display maps of key sightseeing spots and sports venues in Baku, and a shuttle schedule to speed up a travel to the facility. SOLUTIONS In course of the website development, Miritec specialists have implemented: functionality to create galleries for different models with an ability to use a widget in the admin panel; gallery transfer to the server; dynamic forms with validation of entered data on both, client’s and server’s sides; dynamic AJAX-load of the information; functionality of the admin panel; CONTACT US www.miritec.com [email protected] 4, Ivan Lepse Boulevard, Kiev, 03680, Ukraine +380 44 359-05-90 CUSTOMER Metropoliya INDUSTRY Transport CHALLENGE Increase of metro services utilization and its significance amongst citizens and foreign visitors. BUSINESS BENEFITS Lower development costs due to creation an official website as a single tool to introduce metro services and enhance its social value. TECHNOLOGIES, METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS Programming languages – PHP, JavaScript, CSS3 Methodologies – SCRUM http://www.miritec.com/en/project/metro
