Automated Train Ticket

Validation and Verification

System

Under the Guidance of : Prof. Prashant B. Dongare.

Introduction

Indian Railway’s one of the most eldest, biggest andconvenient means of transport in India. And beingthe most eldest and biggest it has very tedious jobswith it. By throwing some light on one of its tediousjob that is Ticket validation and verification work ofTTE(Train Ticket Checker). In this project we aremaking some efforts to digitize the Indian Railway’sTicketing System by making the proper andcomplete use of technology as per our completeknowledge.

Motivation

Huge paper work in Railway’s ticketing system andmanagement in which TTE(Train Ticket Checker),has to go berth by berth for validation andverification of the tickets which have become ahectic job. So, this real life problem arising as aninconvenience for Indian Railway’s Ticket Checkersmotivated us to build a solution.

Objective

To efficiently digitize the ticket validation andverification system.

To reduce paperwork.

To reduce corruption.

To save time.

Existing System

Main motive is to ease the process of ticket booking by avoiding the hectic process to stand in a queue.

Train ticket can be bought on a simple smart phone application.

Generation of the QR Code on ticket.

QR reader checks the QR Code

Validating the Ticket with the help of GPS.

Literature Review

SR.NO TITLE AUTHOR YEAR DESCRIPTION

I.Urban railway ticketing application.

Sadaf Sheikh, Gayatri Shinde, MayuriPotghan, Tazeen Shaikh.

Jan 2014

They proposed application such as Android, cloud database, MySQL, QR code which will be used for the process of booking a ticket for travel through local trains or metros.

II.Android application for local railway ticketing using GPS validation

Snehal Kalbhor , Ashwini Mangulkar , Mrs. Snehal Kulkarni

March 2014They proposed the varioustechniques for buying metro tickets or local railway tickets through their Smartphone application and introduced ticket checker.

III.Android application for ticket reservation with GPS as ticket validation.

Tushar Dongare, Akshay Babar. April 2014

They provided various techniques for buying tickets through their Smartphone application through GPS facility of android mobile so that passenger can easily get the list of station and he can easily buy tickets.

IV.Railway ticketing usingGPS in Metropolitan city.

Ramadevi. K, Murugan. S, Bharath. S May 2014

They proposed a mobile ticketapplication developed for android in which user procure ticket in future.

V.Android railway ticketing with GPS as ticket checker.

Neha sandikar, ranedipti, sachin panday. 2013

They proposed the varioustechniques for buying metro tickets or local railway tickets through their Smartphone application and introduced ticket checker.

Proposed System

Generation of the QR Code on ticket.

An end user android application for TTE.

Automatic verification of tickets.

Automatic Validation of tickets.

Automatic allocation of vacant berths in on-going journey(RAC & W/L).

Automatic cancellation of tickets against not boarding thetrain.

We will be using Cloud, Android and Database for executingthis proposed system.

Advantages

Reduction in Number of unreserved ticketholders in reservation bogies.

RAC and W/L passengers will get berths againstcancelation of ticket in on going journey.

Managing Berth allotment for TTE will becomeconvenient.

Reduction in corruption.

References

[1] Sadaf Sheikh, Gayatri Shinde, Mayuri Potghan, Tazeen Shaikh.,” Urban Railway Ticketing Application.” International Journal Of Advance Research In Computer Science And Software Engineering Vol. 4, Issue 1, Pp. 130-132, Jan 2014.

[2] Snehal Kalbhor, Ashwini Mangulkar, Mrs. Snehal Kulkarni , “Android Application For Local Railway Ticketing Using GPS Validation “International Journal Of Emerging Trends In Science And Technology Vol.1,Issue 1,Pp.71-74,March 2014.

[3] Tushar Dongare, Akshay Babar, “Android Application For Ticket Reservation With GPS As Ticket Validation” International Journal Of Emerging Research In Management And Technology ISSN: 2278-9359, Vol-3, Issue-3, March 2014.

[4] Ramadevi. K, Murugan. S, Bharath. S, “Railway Ticketing Using GPS in Metropolitan City.” International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering ISSN: 2278-9960, Vol-3, Issue-3, Pp.9-12, and May 2014.

[5] Neha Sandikar, Rane Dipti, sachin panday, “Android Railway Ticketing With GPS as Ticket Checker.” Proceedings of National Conference on New Horizons In IT - NCNHIT 2013, Pp.132-134.

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