RFID Based Smart E-Ticketing System

In public transport system, particularly in bus collecting ticket is really a problematic issue. Transport Company has to employ one or two personnel for this purpose. They have to knock everybody for this purpose. It is very common practice for few people to travel without ticket or do not give proper fare. Sometimes there is a rough argument during the journey regarding fare. Also bus personnel have to monitor whether a person has purchased ticket or not. Again having no government authority to take control or keep an eye over the whole scenario, the private sectors are creating a monopoly, taking control over the public transport and autocratic raise in bus fare. To overcome this problem, RFID technology can be used. RFID technology has long been recognized as an efficient method for identifying a single entity. RFID technology also provides for greater security in the system. The ticketing systems using RFID can be merged to solve the above mentioned problems. This paper actually suggests a much more public friendly, automated system of ticketing with the use of RFID based tickets. This system is suitable for megacities like Kolkata where a large no of customers avail public transport system daily.

A good transportation system is an essential recipe to the economy of every city. This work made attempts to improve the transportation billing system by automating the process using RFID technology, devoid of physical cash collection. Inter-campus University transportation service is taken as a case study. Secure RFID reader and tag was used, employing an AES encryption scheme for authentication, where users register with their student identification card which is their unique RFID tags and credit their account in preparation for future travel. The prototype system is developed to place on hold a faulty vehicle while making suggestions for vehicles that are available for travels. The system also saves the record of each travel with respect to the time and destination of the vehicle. Accuracy and response time were metrics used to evaluate the performance of the implemented prototype system; the accuracy of the system when tested on fifteen (15) different users is 100%, while the system has an average response time of 0.29 seconds.

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2023

To overcome the issues that people face nowadays, the E-pass system is generated as a web application. Each time people travel by buses suffer from a lot of hectic rules and regulations to generate pass physically. The E pass system is the web application system that is going to be developed to generate E passes digitally by adding necessary information and documents to generate passes. The main feature of this work is to make the application user-friendly to make their lifestyle easier. By adding all the necessary information regarding the pass, the pass is easily generated. The Bus Pass Generator Application is a user-friendly and efficient mobile application designed to simplify and streamline the process of acquiring and managing bus passes for public transportation systems. This innovative application leverages modern technology to enhance the convenience and accessibility of public transportation for both commuters and transit authorities.

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2021

In the transportation business, we aim to be cost-efficient and effective in our customer service but with the traditional transit payment system, it is not so. Lately, transit companies all over the world are moving towards superior client service, nimbleness, receptiveness to necessities that diverge at a time scale that was absurd even two decades ago. The aim of this study was to create an electronic transit payment system that will allow for full pliability and solutions functionality that Covenant Universities and Nigerian transit companies should adopt to become more effective and efficient. We achieved this with the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) smart cards and card readers aiding a computer program that was programmed using C#. In addition, the program was simple and not expensive to implement in order to eliminate the mismanagement of ticket funds, loiter paper in bus stations, and so on. Together all this became our payment system.

Public utility buses are the most commonly used vehicle in a long distance journey passing through provincial and national roads. Problems in bus transactions are being encountered. Usually, the passengers do not have exact amount in paying bus fares and the conductors " method of collection is time-consuming. This project study focuses on the use of available technologies, such as RFID and Android. These are the tools used by the proponents to develop an improved system of bus fare transactions. This system includes an electronic card, which will be used by the passenger to pay for their fares, an RFID reader will also be used to accumulate and to store the information from the card, and an Android operated device, which will process each transaction. This system will be connected via Bluetooth. The software is linked to the hardware as well. The proponents conducted series of tests and concluded that the proposed system is much faster than the existing methods. It is verified as well that it is more capable of performing necessary actions in accumulating bus fares.

The goal of our project is to attain improved travel information and electronic ticketing using smart cards. The smart cards are similar to that of an ATM, so that they can be recharged and can be reused often. Smart cards are secure portable storage devices used for several applications especially security related ones involving access to the system's database. This looks into current trends in smart card technology and highlights what is likely to happen in the future. The smart card has a microprocessor or memory chip embedded in it that, when coupled with a reader, has the processing power to serve many different applications. The smart cards are user-friendly and so it can be used for Public Transport Networks (PTNs).It can also be noted as a service-oriented architecture. Railways are the important key aspect for the development of the Indian revenue. Many people are in need of train transportation than any other means of transportation because a number of people may travel at the same time. So people may prefer smart cards for the traveling purpose instead of booking the tickets. The existing fare booking system can be replaced by smart cards.

PiLBA'08 Privacy in Location- …, 2008

Abstract. Recently, operators of public transportation in many countries started to roll out electronic tickets (e-tickets). E-tickets offer several advantages to transit enterprises as well as to their customers, eg, they aggravate forgeries by cryptographic means whereas ...

—In smartcard-based travel payment systems, passengers have to place the smartcard near the journey registration devices once each for check-in and check-out to authenticate their travel. This is an annoying process when if the journey involves multiple stops. In this work, we describe a working system of secure energy-efficient automatic ticketing (SEAT) for public transport, which transforms traditional Check-in/Check-out system into Be-in/Be-out system. In SEAT, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled smartphone communicates with registration devices to track the journey for pricing without any human intervention. SEAT is vigilant towards the energy consumption of the BLE device under various conditions, and security and privacy threats to the overall ecosystem. We develop models for energy consumption and latency for BLE devices under the influence of mutual interference based on experiments with 32 BLE devices. We utilize these models to develop an energy-efficient protocol for SEAT that is secure and privacy preserving. Our experiments show that a BLE module consumes only 18.3 J daily under the proposed system model, which is less than 0.1% of the total capacity of a typical smartphone battery. Index Terms—Be-in/Be-out, automated public transport tick-eting, BLE mutual interference, BLE energy consumption.

International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, 2019

In cities, the buses are the nerves of the cities. However, there are many bus operations, which were operated manually. The manual and traditional system takes a lot of time and the tickets cost being of odd amounts and many other different problems while buying tickets. Also in this advance world we are dependent on the paper tickets where the emergence of mobile devices are rapidly increasing among users so here is a solution. In proposed system ticket can be bought with just a smart phone application and, where you can carry your tickets in your smart phone. It uses the smart phones facility to validate and delete your ticket automatically after a specific interval of time. User's ticket information is stored in a database for security purpose which is missing in the present urban system. Also the ticket checker is provided with a mobile based application to search for the user's ticket with the ticket number which is stored in the database for checking purposes.

Proceedings of the International Conferences ICT, Society, and Human Beings 2019; Connected Smart Cities 2019; and Web Based Communities and Social Media 2019, 2019

E-tickets and mobile tickets are widely used across the world for travel by air, trains and coaches. For daily commutes, smart cards are a popular mode of fare collection. These smart travel cards are re-usable and can be easily topped up but may involve a large investment which is hardly affordable in various developing countries. We therefore propose a mobile ticket-based framework which is more economically viable. Bus commuters can purchase their tickets through a mobile application which generates a unique Quick Response (QR) code. During their trip, the QR code is scanned and validated with a corresponding mobile application. This approach considerably reduces the investment in infrastructure as opposed to smart cards. The implemented solution is flexible as it allows the mobile tickets to be used by any bus operator in Mauritius.