IoT enabled intelligent bus transportation system

With the increasing size of urban population, cities are facing a diverse range of issues such as severe traffic congestion, deteriorating air quality, increasing road accidents, and exploding growth in number of private vehicles. At the same time, the share of public transport is decreasing. The reason is lack of dependable public transport facilities. With the development of Information technology, Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a reality. IoT can assist in the integration of communication, control and information processing present in the public transportation system. This paper, deals with implementation of IoT in public transport system by providing information such as bus number, arrival time and number of persons on board to the end user. The cost effective prototype model developed collects data at the vehicle terminal, uploads the updated data to the server through the internet and makes data visible to the awaiting user. Key technologies used in the proposed work are RFID, GPS and controller with in-built Wi-Fi module. A prototype model of the proposed system has been developed and demonstrated.