🚗 Vehicle Rental Management System – C++ Simulator

This project was developed as the third assignment for the course "Programming Lab I" (C++).
It implements a vehicle rental management system, modeling clients, vehicles, rentals, and additional services using object-oriented programming concepts, UML design, and advanced C++ features such as operator overloading and dynamic casting.

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📌 Project Overview

The system simulates the daily operations of a vehicle rental company.
It manages the company’s fleet of vehicles, list of clients, and rental records, while also supporting maintenance and financial tracking.

Main Features

• Vehicles (abstract class with inheritance):

  • Motorcycles (optional helmet rentals)
  • Cars (optional child safety seats)
  • Pickup trucks (child safety seats and/or roof racks)
  • Vans/Traffics (child safety seats and/or foldable auxiliary seats)

• Vehicle attributes:

  • License plate, chassis number, insurance policy, color
  • Last maintenance date
  • Rental price per day (fixed per category)
  • Passenger capacity

• Rental management:

  • Associates a client with a vehicle
  • Records additional equipment requested
  • Stores rental start and end dates
  • Calculates total rental cost (base fee + per-day charge + extras)

• Maintenance system:

  • Each vehicle type has its own maintenance steps (PasosMantenimiento)
  • Automatically updates the last maintenance date

• Advanced programming requirements:

  • UML class design with relationships
  • to_string and printing methods for all classes
  • Getters and setters as needed
  • Overloaded operators:
    • Print operator << for vehicles
    • + operator for adding items to lists
    • [] operator for accessing list elements
  • Use of at least one dynamic_cast and virtual methods

• Statistics:

  • List all rentals by vehicle type
  • Calculate total profit from rentals

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🛠️ Technologies & Concepts

• Language: C++
• Paradigm: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• UML Class Design
• Operator overloading
• Inheritance and polymorphism
• Dynamic casting
• Custom list class with extensions

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▶️ How to Run the Project

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/PieriFra/LABPROGA-TP3.git
   cd LABPROGA-TP3
   

2. Compile the program:

g++ -o VehicleRentalSystem main.cpp

3. Run the system:

./VehicleRentalSystem

📊 Example Use Cases

• Adding vehicles to the company fleet
• Renting a vehicle to a client with optional extras
• Performing maintenance on a vehicle and updating its records
• Listing all rentals by type of vehicle
• Printing daily profit summary

🎯 Learning Goals

This project allowed the application of:

• UML modeling and translation into C++ classes
• Inheritance, abstract classes, and polymorphism
• Operator overloading (<<, +, [])
• Dynamic memory management and dynamic_cast
• Building a modular object-oriented project