Towards Smart Mobility in Cities - Bus Tracking and Booking System

An increasing part of the population is living in cities & urban areas and public transport is an essential part of people's live because it is cheap and convenient. Bus is an efficient medium of transportation to commute from one place to other because it is safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transportation system for all. Now, waiting for a bus to arrive without knowing real-time arrival and getting late due to bus unavailability or hard times due to overcrowding are the main reasons people don't take bus transport nowadays. In this very paper, we have discussed a solution for tracking and estimating the time of arrival of a city bus so that users can get to know the exact location of a bus as well as know the time of arrival at a particular station. We also have discussed a solution where the user gets to know about the various options of buses, one can choose on a particular route because we all know there are always a different number of buses running between two stations and most users don't know about all of the options of buses on a single route. A problem of overcrowding especially in these times of pandemic of corona and illegal tickets or some other ticket fraud is being tried to be solved by the way of digital tickets. By our solution, we aim to completely digitalize the main backbone of city public transport i.e., buses and to such extent, we try to introduce and implement seat booking in the intra-city buses.