Android Based Smart Tracking for College Bus

Abstract

Among all public transportation services, bus service is the major one used by public. Especially in a busy city, bus is the easiest, convenient and cheaper transportation. Passengers are impatient while they are waiting in bus stop because they are not able to know exactly how long to wait and where the next coming bus is. At this crucial situation, the idea of vehicle tracking gained more importance in the field of transportation. In view of the case of college students, there are times when they are unknowing of the change in bus or the bus timings due to any emergency cases and miss the bus due to various issues like change in bus timing, change of bus, or bus service unavailable due to breakdown or accident. Taking in account of such a situation, ‘Android-based Smart Tracking for College Bus’ proposes a real-time college bus tracking application which runs on Android smart phones. It mainly focuses on the concept of bus tracking system using global positioning system. It is a real-time system as the current location of the bus is updated every moment in the form of latitude and longitude values which are received by the students through their application on Google maps. The application also estimates the time needed to reach a specific stop on its route. Alerting system is essential for providing the location and information about college bus to the specified authorities. The application uses client–server technology.

Keywords: Android, tracking, global positioning system, client–server, global standard for mobile

Cite this Article: Akhil K.R., Alka Merin John, Amina M.K., Indu Viswanathan, Resma Chandran. Android-based Smart Tracking for College Bus. International Journal of Software Computing and Testing. 2019; 5(2): 1–6p.