A Billing and Location Monitoring System for Public Transport Vehicles Based on Vehicular Adhoc Network

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to resolve the challenges faced by transport owners in billing passengers that covered different distances with a particular focus on buses. The existing Automatic Vehicle System (AVS) approaches focus on taxis which are boarded by individuals. However, the passenger individual mileage covered in a public transport vehicle like bus has been an issue for long. Each passenger needs to know the distance he/she covered so as to be charged according to the miles travelled. Also, misunderstandings sometimes occur between the transport owners and the drivers due to low or lack of remittance of the fares charged. This research work brings about proper management of public transportation business in the country. This paper proposes four modules; the Capturing Module takes the biometric data of passengers for individual identification while Data Processing Module processes the information and the GPS locations to get the individual distances covered. In Transmission Module, the computed distance and bills are transmitted to the transport owner while the Display Module displays the distance and bills in the vehicle for everybody's view. At the end of the field experiment using the system, our computed distance was compared with the known or measured distance travelled and the difference was insignificant.