Introduction to Computing

Assignment: Information Management System Development

Problem or improvement: Bus Management System

Submitted to: Sir Idress

Group Members:
Dawood Dilawar

Umar Nadeem

Arslan Arshad

Danish Shahzad
 Following is an analysis and problem statement in response to the request
to improve the current Bus Management System of the city of Lahore.

Introduction

The purpose of this analysis is to determine whether it would be

beneficial for the LTC (Lahore Transport Company) to upgrade the
current system. The requester has indicated that the time of the
arrival of the buses on bus stations is not sure and is not known in
any scenario. This project would affect the buses, bus stations, and
the bus drivers.

Existing System

Background

Presently, the buses depart from the central bus station at a fixed
time. And reach the next bus stations on their way passing through
the traffic. A ticket issuer issues the tickets to the passengers, a ticket
checker ensures that every passenger buys a ticket by getting into the
bus at a random station and checking the ticket of every passenger
manually, a time keeper tries to ensures that the buses reaches the
last station in appropriate time by checking the departure time and
the arrival time on a random bus station.

Problems

As the population of the magnificent city of Lahore is rising and the

number of passengers travelling in the buses increase and the
passengers usually do not have much time. The following problems
have been mentioned by the LTC:

 Buses do not reach stations on time and causes the passengers

havoc, passengers are no sure whether they should wait for
the bus or use another mode of transport.
 The manual ticket checking system sometimes causes error and
some passengers travel without tickets.
Proposed Solution

 GPS and RFID systems should be deployed on the buses so that

they can be tracked and there approximate arrival time on a
bus station should be displayed on screens, deployed on the
stations, using inter connected database.
 The ticket or passenger pass should be validated while entering
the departure station and when leaving the exit station. (e.g
metro bus system)

Benefits of the New or Modified System

Following are the number of benefits that could be realized if the

current bus management system of Lahore Transport Company is
modified or renewed to enable passengers reaches the destination
on time and to change the manual ticket checking system of the
current system.

 Passengers can be sure about the time of arrival of buses on

the stations.
 None of the passenger can travel without paying fare thus
increasing the revenue.
 Quality of transport will be increased and trust of passengers
on the company will increase.
 Through the automatic ticket checking system the company
could eliminate the need of a ticket checker.

Feasibility of a New or Modified System

Operational

A modified Bus Management System will require the passengers to

verify their pass before entering and leaving the station. In addition
to surety that every passenger pays the fare, passengers will also be
able to check the time of arrival of a bus on the stations as well as
online.
 Schedule

The deployment of the modified system will take approximately 3-4

months.

Technical

The Lahore Transport Company will need to buy new database

servers and buy packaged or custom software to manage the
database and ticketing system on the stations. Also it will need to buy
GPS and RFID systems as well as screens to deploy on the buses and
bus stations, respectively.

Economic

The cost for the development of a single station would cost around
3000$ each including the ticket checking system, RFID and screens.
There are almost 120 LTC stations around Lahore so the development
of the stations would cost around 360000$. The deployment of the
GPS and RFID in the buses would cost almost 100$ for each bus and
LTC have around 100 buses so it would cost around 10000$. And the
elimination of ticket checkers would save almost 10000$ per month.
LTC would also need to buy new database servers that would cost
around 15000$.

Similar Models

1. Chicago Transit System

2. Trolza Trolley Bus system Moscow
 3. London Bus Network

Recommendation

Based on the findings presented in this report it is highly recommended a

continued study and implementation of the renewed bus management
system.