Android Sub-Urban Railway Ticketing Using GPS as Ticket Checker
Abstract
One of the major challenges in present ticketing provision is “QUEUE” in buying suburban railway tickets. In this rapid growing world of technology user buy with oyster and octopus cards for suburban tickets, this is frustrating at times to stand in the queue or if user forgot his cards. Android Suburban Railway (ASR) ticketing is to buy the suburban ticket which is the most difficult when compared to booking the long journey tickets through ‘M-ticket’. ASR ticket can be bought with smart phone application, where user can carry his railway tickets in his smart phone as QR-code. It uses the smart phone’s “GPS” facility to authenticate and erase ticket automatically after a specific interval of time when user reaches to the destination. User’s ticket information is stored in a CLOUD database for security, which is absent in present suburban system. Also the ticket checker is provided with a checker application to look for user’s ticket with the ticket number in the cloud database for checking purposes.
