Public Bus Monitoring System

Computer Engineering

With the endless expansion of metropolitan cities, one of the major concerns of people is the means of transportation. All the major cities are spread across tens of kilometres. In such cases, going from one place to another is a hectic process. The government does a great job by providing people with options like local trains, metro trains and government buses. As the local people get used to these systems, the people who come from other cities have a hard time keeping a track of these services especially when there is a language gap. For example, the MTC services in Chennai, India, started with a fleet of 30 buses in 1947. Today the number of buses has increased to 3964, running at the same time all over Chennai and nearby areas. These buses have a distinct number, and the buses having a particular number runs to and fro, on a particular route. So, if a commuter has to go someplace, he/she has to know the nearest bus stand as well as the bus numbers which ply on the required route. Though the buses ply at regular time intervals from the initial bus stops, the time they reach to the final and intermediate bus stops is affected by factors like traffic, road conditions, weather etc. So, people never know how long it will take for the next bus to come and they end up wasting time for the wrong bus. This project aims at developing an interactive notification system about the location of public buses. The proposed system will allow people to know about the exact location of the buses by the help of GPS on mobile devices and Google Maps API. It also provides additional information like the route of the buses and bus stands it will stop at. The location is retrieved using a small android app using inbuilt android APIs and sent to an HTTP server where it is stored in a database. On the front end, the locations are fetched from the server and displayed on the map.

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