Abstract:
In the daily operation of a bus system, the movement of vehicles is
affected by uncertain conditions as the day progresses, such as traffic
congestion, unexpected delays, and randomness in passenger demand, irregular
vehicle dispatching times, and incidents. It often discourages the passengers for
excessively waiting long time at bus stops and makes them reluctant to take the
public transport, buses.
In this project we propose a system by which we can predict bus
arrival time using GPS and GSM technology. It is an embedded system using
GPS (Global Positioning System), GSM (Global System for Mobile
Communication) and Arduino for tracking the bus. The real time co-ordinates
obtained from the GPS will continuously monitor a moving vehicle and report
the status of the vehicle on request to passengers. The GPS/GSM unit is
mounted on the bus sends the data to the central monitoring system using the
GSM module. The position i.e. Latitude and Longitude of a vehicle from remote
place is sent by the GSM module to the Server and then the server calculates the
arrival time of the bus and sends to the LCD Module mounted at bus stop
through GSM module.
