Just built a Trip Cost Estimator web app with real-time vehicle MPG lookup & state-level fuel prices as an individual project!
I developed an interactive Streamlit application that allows users to automatically fetch vehicle MPG from the US government API based on selected Make, Model, and Year, calculate fuel costs using live state-level gas prices scraped from AAA, avg the state fuel price according the travel path and plot routes with multiple stops via OpenRouteService and Folium maps.
Streamlit made it incredibly fast and easy to turn this idea into an interactive web app with a clean UI. What’s great is that Streamlit directly syncs with any edits I make to the GitHub repository — making updates seamless and deployment effortless!
This project was a great way to level up my geospatial programming skills and experiment with API integrations in a fun, practical way.
You can try the web app here for your travel budget estimate: https://rb.gy/mii83w
Sample output:
Total distance & duration
Estimated gallons used
Average fuel price by state
Total estimated fuel cost
Interactive map showing stops & route