Digital Travel

"The objective of the project is to modernise existing passenger ticketing system by introducing the concept of digital travel with the help of information technology to provide maximum benefits to the travelling public and the transport corporations and to promote our state towards Swatch Bharath". There are eight transport undertakings across the state which has a fleet of over 21,000 buses. They carry about two crore passengers daily. Average daily collection is 22.75 crore, while yearly collection is more than 7,500 crore. Surprisingly, the corporation has reported a collective loss of Rs 1,792 crore last year. The ticketing system followed at present has heaps of shortcomings namely

1. Investing money for printing and issuing a ticket in this digital world is the highest level of insanity.

2. Every passenger will have to provide the correct change in rupee to obtain a ticket. It is a matter of concern for both the passenger and the conductor.

3. Need to reduce the usage of paper and create a green environment. (2 crore tickets are printed daily)

4. Tickets turn out lots of cleanliness both inside the bus and in the bus depot.

Extent of current impact on the Society:

· Inconvenience to both passenger and conductor in giving the exact amount for a ticket

· Cheating by travelling without a ticket

· Tickets thrown everywhere in the bus and at the bus depot

Suggested Solution:

A prepaid card is issued to every passenger which can be used by him during bus travel. He needs to carry the card during his travel. The card will have a tag that contains his identity information and the amount he needs to pay for his travels. A RFID (Radio-frequency Identification) reader which uses wireless non-contact radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data through a GSM sender is kept at the bus door. At the control room there will be a GSM receiver to receive the message sent and will communicate the same to a main server.

A person with a card in his pocket will have to just enter the bus door, the door is installed with the RFID reader and GSM sender. The card will be read automatically and his information will be sent to the server. The same process is repeated when he leaves the bus. The time he enters the bus will be taken as a starting point and the time he leaves the bus will be taken as the ending time and based on the distance traveled his fare will be detected from his card automatically. If he enters in to the bus with a very low value in his card, a beep sound will indicate and he has to recharge his card in money vending machines kept at various bus depots.

Cost/ Benefit Analysis:

· No printing cost

· No paper cost

· Less fraudulence

· Cashless travel hence no pick pocketing

· Clean India​