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Abstract - Due to many problems in today’s world such as screen. In turn, college transportation will be smoother and
traffic congestion, unexpected delays, randomness in passenger (students and faculty members) friendly.
passenger demand and irregular vehicle dispatching times,
passengers do not know when to expect their buses to arrive. 2. RELATED WORK
To overcome this, a system can be introduced which will show
the real-time location of buses. This project focuses on Supriya et.al[1] projected a real-time college bus tracking
implementing this system, which uses a real-time bus tracking application for android smartphones which provides the
system. From the global positioning system on the driver’s exact location of the college bus in Google Maps by providing
phone on college buses, the location of the bus will be information such as bus details, stops, routes, etc. It is a real-
transmitted. This real-time bus tracking system is a system time system as the current location of the bus is updated
designed with special features to display the real-time every second in the form of latitude and longitude values
locations of college buses provided by the university. It can which is received by the students through their application
also be used for many other transportation services. on Google maps. It will estimate the time required to reach a
particular stop on its route. The application uses client-
Key Words: Android, Real-time Systems, GPS, Google server technology. When students and faculty members open
Maps, Java Programming the application the location of the bus is visible in Google
Maps. Students can track the location of their bus from any
1. INTRODUCTION location through their login. But students and faculty
members must make sure that their location service is
In today's world, every second counts. And because of this active. It provides the exact location of the college bus, if the
everything has become a challenge, especially the traffic. We driver’s phone cannot access the internet or if they do not
all know the most perfect schedule is that of schools and have network coverage, the location of the bus can be
colleges. The time in which we start and end is very crucial obtained using the average speed of the bus that moves on a
in colleges, so by default transportation becomes a big fixed route. Admins can send a message to the driver and the
challenge. College buses are the most convenient way of students in any case of an emergency.
travelling for students, professors and all the other faculty
members. Not only for colleges even companies use buses to G.Kiran et.al[2]s introduced an android application where
pick up and drop their employees. But factors such as traffic the hardware unit is also used along with the software unit
congestion and breakdown increases the delay for to track college buses. The hardware unit consists of a global
passengers and increases waiting time and is indeed a waste positioning system module and an Arduino microcontroller.
of time. Because of the unexpected traffic and delay, people The Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is
are afraid that they may fail in punctuality. To overcome this, inserted to a subscriber identity module card which is
college buses can use technologies such as the global connected to the power supply. Using the commands
positioning system, cellular network and real-time vehicle dumped into the microcontroller, it takes the latitude and
tracking to stay on track of their schedule. The advent of longitude values of the current position from the global
real-time vehicle tracking which uses the global positioning positioning system and passes it on to the global system for
system which displays the fetched data and also allows the mobile communications. The global system for mobile
user to monitor its activities and the passenger can find communications will be connected to the server by general
know where exactly their bus is, so they can arrive at the bus packet radio service. Thus, the values get stored in the
stop on time and can manage their time efficiently or they database on the server. Then, the location is fetched from the
can take alternate transport in case of a delay. This system stored database on the server. This location is transferred as
also allows scheduling and planning much before initiation. a Google Map which is visible to the user. The position of the
Thus, this real-time tracking can be achieved by our bus is refreshed every thirty seconds and stored on the
proposed system. The remote control of the system is given server database.
to the user which uses a mobile app-based application. This,
in turn, displays the real-time location of a bus on the user’s
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Step 3: In the “Set An Alarm” screen, the user has the option
to set an alarm, either by providing a time or a location. If
they set a time, they will be notified that amount of time
before the bus reaches their stop. If they set a location, they
will be notified when the bus reaches that specific location.
Step 4: In the “Track A Bus” screen, the user has the option to
track other buses that pass by their stop in case they miss
their bus.
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Here is a comparison between this project and other bus Fig -4: Forgot Password Screen
tracking systems which uses a global positioning system
and a global system for mobile communications. This
paper was published in 2017.
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5. CONCLUSION
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