Chapter 1: Introduction 5 1.1. Background Information 5 1.2 Problem Statement 5 1.3 Project Aim and Objectives 5 1.3.1 Aim 5 1.3.2 Objectives 5 1.4 Project Scope and Constraints 6 1.4.1 Scope 6 1.4.2 Constraints 6 1.5 Feasibility study 6 1.5.1 Operational 6 1.5.2 Technical 6 1.5.3 Social 6 1.5.4 Legal 7 1.5.5 Economical 7 1.6 Justification or Significance of the research 7 1.7 Literature review 7
Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Background Information
This project is about an SMS Based Bus Ticketing System. The system affects the Thunda Group of Companies. The company does not use any system to run their business. Everything is done manual, they use receipt books for bookings. The customer has to make a call to reserve a seat and come later to the station to pay, in some instances customers do not show up and this cause inconvenience to the company. If the customer is far from the station, they can deposit money into the company’s account then fax the statement slip to them as prove of payment. Conductors cheat by not receipting people or customers …………..
The proposed system has three modules. First module helps the customer to require the availability of seats in a particular bus. The second module helps to book a seat and enable the system to print out the ticket. The third module the system will also be able to detect and store the weight and time a particular passenger has sat on the chair.
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1.2. Problem Statement
The main problem of the company is that, it does not have a system for tickets purchasing or booking of the seats. They use manual system, that is, receipt books to try and record transactions. This then make the system slow and unreliable since paperwork can easily misplaced or damaged. Cheat????????????
This proposed system will replays all the paper work. By using this system transactions will become fast and there should not be any error in