Product / Rider scheduling

Rider scheduling

Recommendations that protect a rider's earning time.

Rootd returns a suggested swap window that minimizes travel plus wait — surfaced through the operator's own app as a projection, never a separate consumer brand.

GET /v1/riders/{id}/projection200 OK
SUGGESTED SWAP WINDOW
13:20 – 13:50
Kawangware Hub · 600m away
est. wait 3 min
0%earning time retained
−11minvs. unplanned swap
recommendation only · operator app decides surfacing
Windowsuggested swap time
Travel + waitfriction minimized
Projectionoperator app decides
Read-onlyno consumer brand

Earning time, protected

Point riders at the right station at the right minute.

Swap friction is travel plus queue. Rootd minimizes both — and hands the result to your app.

Suggested window

A window, not just a station.

Rootd reads live station load and returns the swap window with the least combined travel and wait — so a rider spends minutes idle, not a shift.

  • Window derived from live station load
  • Travel distance factored in
  • Updates as conditions change
GET /v1/riders/{id}/projection200 OK
SUGGESTED SWAP WINDOW
13:20 – 13:50
Kawangware Hub · 600m away
est. wait 3 min
0%earning time retained
−11minvs. unplanned swap
recommendation only · operator app decides surfacing

Less queue

Move riders out of the long tail.

A scheduled window shifts swap demand off the peaks, collapsing the long wait-time tail that quietly eats rider earnings.

  • Demand spread off peaks
  • Long waits become rare
  • Modeled, then validated on your data
SWAP WAIT TIME · MINUTES
UnplannedRootd-suggested window
0–2
2–5
5–10
10+

Illustrative distribution — modeled, not measured production data.

API output

Output your app owns.

Scheduling is a read API and a projection object. Your swap app chooses whether and how to surface it — Rootd never talks to riders directly.

  • Clean projection payload
  • Surface it, or don't
  • Rootd stays a layer, not an app
GET /v1/riders/{id}/projection
01"rider_id": "rdr_8841",
02"suggested_window": {
03 "start": "13:20", "end": "13:50"
04},
05"station": "kawangware_hub",
06"est_wait_min": 3,
07"friction_saved_min": 11,
08// recommendation only — your app decides surfacing
A recommendation, never a takeover. Rootd does not replace your swap app or station software, and does not operate a consumer brand. It returns projections; your product decides what riders see.

Less time in the queue — more daily rider earnings retained after swap friction.

See the rider projection API run against your network's live load.