bus reservation system

CHAPTER ONE

       

 INTROUDUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

             The propose system is to computerize traveling company to manage data, so that all the transactions become fast and there should not be error in transaction like calculation mistakes, bill generation and others things. It replaces all the paper work. It keeps records of all bills, also giving to ensure 99% successful implementation the computerized Bus reservation system. Our reservation system has three modules. First module helps the customer to enquire the availability of seats in a particular bus at particular date. Second module helps him to reserve a ticket. Using third module he can cancel a reserved ticket.

          In bus reservation system there has been a collection of buses, agent who are booking tickets for customer’s journey manually (e.g okun transport, ABC transport, Big Joe venture, Wazobia transportation company, Ekene dili chukwu limited) which give bus number and departure time of the bus manually. According to the name of our propose system it will manages the details of all customer, workers, tickets booking, rental details, and timing details and so on. It also manages the updating of the objects.

In the tour detail there is information about bus, which has been taking customers at their destination, it also contain the detailed information about the customer, who has been taken from which bus and what are the number of members he or she is taking his/her journey. This section also contain the details of booking time of the seat(s) or collecting time of the tickets, this section also contain the booking date, time and the name of agent which is optional, by which the customer can reserve the seats for his journey, In Bus number category it contains the details of buses which are old/new. New buses are added with the details with bus no, from city to the city, type of the bus, rent of a single seat, if the bus has sleeper than the cost of sleeper, if the excecutive bus has the facility for sitting than the cost of mass bus seats, tour timings of the new bus has also been stored. How many buses are currently given and available in office?

In seats specification, it gives the list of been issued and current available seats and contain the information about seats like sleeper, excecutive buses, mass buses etc.

The main objective of this project is to provide the better work efficiency, security, accuracy, reliability, feasibility. The error occurred could be reduced to nil and working conditions can be improved.

OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT

the proposed project is a web technology based product that can be implemented for any transportation providers/organizations. This system provides facilities for customers to reserve buses, full details of the customers are collected. This system lets any kind of register transportation company to have an account for login and checking for the reservation history of their customer. So, this system provides customer booking information from various  organizations terminal to decide about the applications of the customer travelling schedule.

   This study has its primary objectives, the design of a system that will immense benefit to the goverment, operators and passengers of all categories in traveling bus.

       Other objectives of the study are to:

       i.            Develop a cost effective, efficient in intelligent and user friendly graphic interface for bus reservation system.

     ii.            Eforce the timely and accurate report of bus operational delay and other road mishaps.

 METHODOLOGIES

The methodology that will be used through out the development process will be a variation on the waterfall life cycle. As the requirements for the project are unlikely to change dramatically this methodology will fit the project. If the project looked like the requirements would be changing often a more agile methodology would have been chosen. The waterfall lifecycle works by following a strict path through the development process not moving on to the next stage until the previous stage has been completed.

The stages for this project will be:

v The first stage of the project will involve researching into existing systems, user expectation and then drawing up the requirements of the project. Once we have the functional requirements have been decided upon the

v second stage will involve research into the non-functional requirements of the project for instance security and accessibility.

Once the functional and non-functional requirements have been decided upon and the technologies to be used has been decided, the system will be design.

Once the design process has been completed the implementation stage can begin, although there will be no formal test driven development for this project when new features are added or code is edited the system will be tested to ensure that no bugs have been introduced into the program.

Once the implementation has been completed the entire system will be thoroughly tested.

       IMPORTANCE OF THE SYSTEM

The system is very important to the transportation management and also to the customer in several ways:

       I.            It makes management work very easy and simple.

     II.            It ease communication between the customer and the management

  III.            It makes the company to be accessible from any where.

 IV.            It also ease payment of fares.

    V.            It helps to acquire customer data(details).

PROBLEM DEFINITION

The definition of our problem lies in manual system and a fully automated system.

Manual system:  The system is very time consuming and lazy .  This system is more prone to

errors and sometimes the approach to various problems is unstructured.

Technical system:  With the advent of latest technology if we do not update our system

our business result in losses gradually with time. The technical systems contains the tools of the latest

trend i.e. computers printers, fax, Internet etc. The systems with this technology are very-fast, accurate, user-friendly and reliable.

Need of  Bus resevation system

A few factors that directs us to develop a new system are given below -:

1) Faster System

2) Accuracy

3) Reliability

4) Informative

5) Reservations and cancellations from any where to any place

o  FUNCTIONALITY

The  Customer and the Bus Administrator are the two parties

which interact with the database, who have different ‘view level

schemas’ to the database information.

Ø Customer Services

               i.  Create an account by registering, modify account

                  details, deregister from the services

             ii.  Make afresh  multi passenger  reservations, the

                 customers are provided to choose their

                 reservation spots rather than being randomly

                 allocated positions

         iii.  View , modify or cancel past reservations

         iv.  Customers  are provided with different reservation

               status, just as in real life systems

         v.  Consumers are  informed, through emails,  about

              updates in the reservations and trains

        vi.  Consumers are informed about the various seasonal

              offers and discounts.

Ø Administrator Services

                i.  Add new train services or update the existing train

              services, e.g. modifying their stopping stations,

              stoppage times, tariffs, etc.

         ii.  Add or update the physical description of trains, like

             number of coaches, type of coaches, number of

             berths, etc.

     iii.  Update  information about addition of bus

stations, add new bus stations, drop existing

bus stations, etc.

iv.  Access and modify customer accounts or customer

      reservations

          Scope of the project

Future scope of the project: -

The project has a very vast scope in future. The project can be implemented on internet in future. Project can be updated in near future as and when requirement for the same arises, as it is very flexible in terms of expansion. With the proposed

software of Web Space Manager ready and fully functional the client is now able to manage and hence run the entire work in a much better, accurate and error free manner.

 The following are the future scope for the project: - 

The number of levels that the software is handling can be made unlimited in future from the current status of handling up to N levels as currently laid down by the software. Efficiency can be further enhanced and boosted up to a great extent by normalizing  and de-normalizing the database tables used

in the project as well as taking the kind of the alternative set of data structures and advanced calculation algorithms available.

o   We can in future generalize the application from its current customized status wherein other vendors developing and working on similar applications can utilize this software and make changes to it according to their business needs.

o   Faster processing of information as compared to the current system with high accuracy and reliability.

o   Automatic and error free report generation as per the specified format with ease.

o   Automatic calculation and generation of correct and precise Bills thus reducing much of the workload on the accounting staff and the errors arising due to manual calculations.

o   With a fully automated solution, lesser staff, better space utilization and peaceful work environment, the company is bound to experience high turnover.

A future application of this system lies in the fact that the proposed system would remain relevant in the future. In case there be any additions or deletion of the services, addition or deletion of any reseller in any type of modification in future

can be implemented easily. The data collected by the system will be useful for some other purposes also.

All these result are in high client-satisfaction, hence, more and more business for the company that will scale the company business to new heights in the forthcoming future.