Avaya
Women’s Safety Navigation
A safety-first navigation platform that scores routes using real-world risk signals and provides one-tap SOS escalation.

Avaya helps women navigate cities with confidence by prioritizing route safety over pure travel time. It continuously evaluates road segments and exposes route tradeoffs clearly before a trip begins.
How it's built
React + Leaflet frontend with Clerk authentication, backed by an Express API. PostgreSQL/PostGIS and pgRouting power geospatial computations, nearest-service lookup, and dynamic route safety scoring.
What it does
- Safety-vs-shortest route comparison
- Time-aware road risk adjustments
- One-tap SOS emergency dispatch
- Community reporting and alerts feed
Where it got hard
Designing a scoring model that remains explainable while adapting to time-of-day and contextual incident density in real time.
I learned how to model multi-factor urban safety signals into interpretable scoring logic users can trust under high-stress decision making.
What's next
Add predictive risk heatmaps, trusted-circle notifications, and richer municipal data integrations for more precise routing.