Flexible Train Ticketing System (FlexTT)

With the advent of ICT technologies especially the Internet, most business related operations are now conducted online. This includes the train ticket reservation. Many systems all over the world have implemented online train ticketing reservation; however they still have some limitations that require using some manual procedures. In this final year project, an attempt to develop a web-based system that provides an easy and flexible reservation procedures to overcome the problems in the existing systems. The purpose of this report is to give an overview on the Prototyping-based method which has been chosen by Author to develop this system and to show how this web-based system (Flexible Train Ticketing System (FlexTT)) would make it easy and convenient for users to perform tickets reservation anytime, anywhere with less time consuming and cost effective. Using this particular system, user is able to search for, book, pay, change and cancel a ticket at the touch of button, that means presence in the ticket counter no longer required. Furthermore Green IT concept is implemented in FlexTT by replacing paper tickets with mobile tickets. Besides FlexTT is able to detect passengers’ absence and utilizes these seats. The scope of this final year project will be mainly on developing online functions (booking, cancellation and change ticket’s date and time) and functions that are performed by sending and receiving short messaging service(SMS), which are( ticket cancellation, check ticket’s status and notifications).