SHANMUGANATHAN EngINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING
First Review

BATCH 13

Presented by
Guided by
N.Aravinth -912420104005
Mr.V.Ilayaraja M.E. Assistant professor
K.Rajasekar -912420104026
BUS Travel Assistance System
Bus tracking is a system that tracks a bus and gathers the distance to each station along its
route.
installation of an electronic device in a bus, with an Android App ,User to track the bus location
Buses carry GPS devices to track their positions. The real-time bus tracking system uses GPS
(Global Positioning System)
Abstract
In this fast life, everyone is in hurry to reach their destinations. In this case waiting for the
buses is not reliable. People who rely on the public transport their major concern is to know the
real time location of the bus for which they are waiting for and the time it will take to reach their
bus stop. This information helps people in making better travelling decisions. This paper gives
the major challenges in the public transport system and discuss various approaches to
intelligently manage it. Current position of the bus is acquired by integrating GPS device on the
bus and coordinates of the bus are sent by either GPRS service provided by GSM networks or
SMS or RFID. GPS device is enabled on the tracking device and this information is sent to
centralized control unit or directly at the bus stops using RF receivers. This system is further
integrated with the historical average speeds of each segment. This is done to improve the
accuracy by including the factors like volume of traffic, crossings in each segment, day and
time of day. People can track information using LEDs at bus stops, SMS, web application or
Android application. GPS coordinates of the bus when sent to the centralized server where
various arrival time estimation algorithms are applied using historical speed pat- terns.
 Introduction
• Bus transportation service has very poor transportation information system nowadays.
• Bus users do not know the exact arrival time for a bus, but only know the scheduled approximate arrival time.
Bus transportation service does not have a proper system to track all buses position and the actual arrival time in
every bus stop. These problems occur because current bus service system did not apply real time tracking
technology to track on each buses on the road and also lack of a platform to update latest bus traffic information
to bus users.
• In order to solve these problems and enhance current bus service system, real time bus tracking system has to
develop and implement. With real time bus tracking system, bus position data is connected real time and
transmitted to a central server for processing and extracting transit information. The main technology used to
develop this system is Global Positioning System (GPS). GPS technology able to receives the position of an
object from space-based satellite navigation system through a GPS receiver.
• The bus location is automatically placed on Google maps, which makes it easier for tracking a vehicle and
provides
users with more accurate vehicle location information.The developed bus tracking system will be able to provide
bus users a real time platform to check on updated bus traffic information, for example bus arrival or departure
time.
Existing system
•There are many existing platforms and applications that are used to assist com- muters
plan their travel uses mobile data for the connectivity and communication and GPS to get
the real-time location of the bus (or other means of transport) relative to the commuter.
There are solutions that offer a limited accuracy in metropolitan cities.However, these
solutions are not available to the other cities and also, they rely on historical data to
provide information.
•The Intelligent Transport System (ITS)s based solutions can be studied to overcome these
pitfall, would help the commuter to effectively utilize the public transport which includes
lower waiting time. There are many implementations of Intelligent Transport System all
around the world, each solu- tion designed to address a specific demographic region.
There are existing solutions like tram TRACKER by Yarra Technologies in Melbourne,
Australia and Google Maps is always there to cater the needs of the metropolitan
computers
Proposed system
•The real time tracking of bus can be done and this information is then given to remote
user who wants to know the real time bus information. Our system provides the relevant
information regarding
•Real time location: Here the current location of the bus will be displayed.
•Route details: The system will display the route details with stops name.
•Average waiting time and expected time to reach: The system will display the
ETA(estimated time of arrival) on the Google maps between two stops.
•Real time traffic to diverse route in case of heavy congestion: The system will display the
traffic details for the driver in case of congestion.
UML Diagrams
Use case diagram:
Class diagram:
Activity diagram:
BUS Travel Assistance System Architecture
GPS Architecture
A GPS tracker essentially contains a GPS
module to receive the GPS signal and
calculate the coordinates. For data
loggers it contains large memory to store the
co- ordinates, data pushers additionally
contains the GSM/GPRS
modem to transmit this information to a central
computer either via SMS or via GPRS in form
of IP packets
Login Module
• Admin login for admin access .

• Public login for view the bus details and

using the application for their travel

• Driver login for the purpose of gathering

information from the driver
Admin Module
Here we have four things
• Driver Register
• Bus Register
• Driver List
• Bus List
BUS Location Module
CONCLUSIONS
•GPS Based Bus tracking System is an Application that has its client side on the Android
platform. Application is free of cost and easy to install on device. The accuracy of this
system relies on the GPS coordinates generated using satellites while reliability of the
system depends on the GPRS facility.
•The system is effective where Internet is accessible. By including the concept of
direction, the size of the database has reduced to half, thereby not exhausting the server
and database with similar sets of data in different tables.
•The proposed system also predicts the average velocity of the bus using clustering and
back propagation method. This increases the accuracy of the system as it also takes
into account the traffic conditions during that day of week and time of the
day
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