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This is the wiki of the RailTrail project, which is part of the REAKT initiative aiming to support individual transport on rails. The goal of this project is to develop a fullstack system to track and monitor vehicles on a rail track and to make traveling with these vehicles more safe and fun. The tracking is done by trackers mounted on a vehicle and also by apps used by passengers riding the vehicle. The backend stores and processes this tracking data before the app or the administrative website displays it.

Note: The RailTrail project is part of the master program whereas the app mentioned above was implemented for a bachelor thesis. Hence this wiki only describes the app sparsely.

Overview of wiki pages with a short description:

• The Configuration page contains an overview of the available options to configure components of RailTrail.
• The Data Processing page contains a description of the calculations for the information of the vehicles such as speed, current position, and heading.
• The Database Model describes as the title suggests the database model and some additional information about working with the Prisma ORM.
• The Deployment of server & website contains some information about a lightweight deployment for development and local testing. Additionally, it contains some instructions for the actual deployment to production.
• The REST-API-page is a documentation of the REST-API in the ExpressJS backend. It contains the API for the website, the app, and the GPS trackers.
• System structure & Tech Stack describes the overall structure of the system and contains a quick summary of the most important frameworks in use for this project.