Design And Implementation Of A Road Transport Booking System

1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project, Road Transport Booking System is a generic web portal application that is used for the management of ticketing, seat reservation and staff information of ABC Transport. This system aids travelers in reserving seat in a bus from anywhere. Varieties of buses that satisfy the customer’s requirements, price, and bank accounts are provided by the company managers. Travelers who wish to use the system are registered into the system. From user homepage, they can make a reservation and payment. The project used software like Visual Studio Code as a development tool, MySQL for the database, Apache as the web server. For the main effects, it used jQuery.

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This project work will be of utmost importance to transport companies. The project, can serve as a marketing strategy and aids in efficient processing and delivery of itinerary receipts. This thesis is also beneficial to the world at large as it will ease the tedious processes of bus seat reservation.

Also the result of this study will be of importance to scholars researching the field of information system as it will serve as a reference to them. As a reference material, it could generate other researchers’ interests in the unfinished part of this research, especially in the full implementation and deployment of the system.

1.6 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The major limitation faced during the course of this project research is during the actual software development. PHP codes required for efficient bus reservation were difficult to obtain. This made me go for the available but less preferred code for the implementation. Although the developed system met the intended objectives, better logic algorithms would have produced a more secured system.

Furthermore, Payment with smart card will not be possible due to lack of fund to get the intereswitch facilities that are expected in this area. However payment will be done by direct payment into bank account

The inability to lay hands on previous materials on the topic slowed down my research speed. Quality materials needed for reference were difficult to obtain. Available materials did not have enough resources to be used as reference. 

Also much finance was required to purchase resourceful intelligence and owing to the financial meltdown globally, the research was limited by finance and hence concentrated on the available materials. 

1.7 PROJECT METHODOLOGY

For any project to be completed, it has to go through stages called Development Life Cycles. System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of understanding how an Information System (IS) can support business needs, designing the system, building it and delivering it to users. The SDLC composes of four phases: Planning, Analysis, Design and Implementation. In order for this project to be developed, the methodology that will be used is the System Structured Analysis and Design Methodology. The SSADM is classified as a Waterfall Development. With Waterfall Development, analyst and users proceed sequentially from one phase to the next and each phase can be mapped out and evaluated (Hevner, 2004). Below, in figure 3.1 is a diagram on the waterfall methodology.

1.8 ORGANISATION OF THE STUDY

This thesis would be presented in five (5) chapters in well-structured and coordinated order as outlined below:

Chapter one (Introduction): is a general introduction of the project, it gives the general idea of the project and its objectives. Also the problem statement, which is a clearly defined problem to be tackled. Finally the organization of the thesis

Chapter two (Literature Review): This chapter presents description and explanation for various technologies used , definition of payment system and its forms, the history of electronic payment, the types of electronic payments, security and authentication in electronic payment, and the e-payment in public transport

Chapter three (Methodology): This chapter introduces a brief description of the system. And approaches overall framework used in building the system. Also it includes a brief description of the software and hardware components that were used, system functional and non-functional requirements, database design, and the payment process.

Chapter four (Results and test): This chapter shows the results obtained when the system executed, and discusses tests performed on the system

Chapter five (Conclusion and future work): This chapter provides the project conclusion, limitations, and future work will be performed to improve this project.

1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS

• System: A system is a group of interrelated component working together

toward a common goal by accepting input and producing output in an

organized transformation process. (Brine, 1996).

• Information Management: This involves the utilization of material

equipment and human resources to identify, generate, process and store

information for eventual retrieval and dissemination to be used by management or individual reception objective.

• Information System: Information system is defined as a set of interrelated components that collects or retrieves, process and store information to support decision making and control in an establishment.

• Management Information System (MIS): which is a computer-based

information system that uses data recorded by TPS as input to produce routine reports to assist managers in tactical decision making?

• Transportation: Transportation is the movement of people from one place to another.

• Booking: This is the arrangement of seat on a bus made by a travel agent for passengers.

• Passengers: A passenger is a person who travels from one place to another by the means of a transporting system.

• Ticket: Ticket is a printed paper that entitles the holder to board a particular means of commercial transportation.

• Manifest: This is a form that passengers fill their personal information, next of kin and also his or her departure place and destination respectively