Mobile Ticketing System for Automatic Fare Collection Model for Public Transport

Abstract

The ticketing system of public transport system is mainly manual and in some areas semi-automatic which is tedious, stressful and involves a lot of time, effort & manpower. Besides, this is highly inadequate to handle the humongous commuter volume. The traveler has to spend lots of time in queue for buying tickets, tokens and smart cards as well as recharging the smart card specifically during picks hours. To get rid of this hurdle we are proposing a Mobile ticketing model for public transport system. In this paper we are using the Cell phone (Mobile) of a commuter. The Mobile Ticketing model comprises of a registered mobile subscription either Prepaid or postpaid for the traveler's identity by scanning mobile phone number at the entrance/exit of the vehicle or stations and deducting the fare from the Mobile number immediately in case of prepaid connection and sending the information to the service provider of the Mobile connection in case of post paid mobile connection.