This Project submitted to Philly Codefest 2026
Project: SafeRoutePHL
Project Type: Beginner
Location: E4
Provide a safer routing experience for Philadelphians
This app provides an alternative to google maps for philadelphia that outputs three routes for the user, ranking them on safety, travel time, and an additional alternative route. The way we compute how safe a route is through a Kernel Density Estimation of the crime data that we pulled from Philly Crime Data published by the Philadelphia Police Department. We then input each coordinate along the route and plug it in to our heatmap generated by the estimation and normalize it across a 0-10 numerical value with 10 being the safest route you can take and 0 being the unsafest. The data also provides a breakdown of each crime that it found along the route as well as an AI overview of why certain routes were output by the app.
The front end was built with React/Vite and the backend was mainly built with Python+FastAPI. We trained the data with databricks and the KDE module from scikit-learn
Selected Prizes
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CSL is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of lifesaving medicines, including those that treat hemophilia and immune deficiencies, vaccines to prevent influenza, and therapies in iron deficiency, dialysis and nephrology. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives using the latest technologies.
Today, CSL – including our three businesses, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor – provides lifesaving products to patients in more than 100 countries and employs 32,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial strength, R&D focus and operational excellence enables us to identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live life to the fullest.
Our plasma business plays a critical role in saving lives by collecting plasma at dedicated plasma donation centers. At these centers, eligible donors safely donate plasma through a regulated process, where plasma—the liquid portion of blood rich in essential proteins and antibodies—is collected and the remaining blood components are returned to the donor. This donated plasma is then used to manufacture life-saving therapies for people with rare, chronic, and serious medical conditions who depend on plasma-derived medicines
The Problem
Accessing healthcare isn’t always easy.
People juggle:
- Work and school schedules
- Travel and commuting
- Family responsibilities
- Traffic and weather disruptions
- Limited appointment availability
- Long or unpredictable wait times
Even when care is available, it doesn’t always align with real life.
For example, in our Plasma business, plasma donors often struggle to fit donations into busy schedules. With multiple donor centers, varying crowd levels, traffic, and even weather, it’s hard to know the best time and place. Any
BUSINESS USE
product that focuses on donor communication using ai to better engage with that donor would be an preferred technology to deliver it. Examples could be a donor facing mobile application to incentivize donors to donate, a web application that communicates to donor or
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Prizes
$25 Starbucks gift cards per team member, CSL water bottles, and an opportunity to visit our King of Prussia office to present the challenge -
The Culture and Community Innovation Award recognizes a team whose project strengthens shared culture and fosters meaningful community connection. This award celebrates creative efforts that bring people together, reflect and uplift a wide range of experiences, and build environments where collaboration, belonging, and collective growth can thrive.
