Crowdsourced Transport Management System for Smartphone Users

The population of Dhaka city in Bangladesh is increasing rapidly. The demand for public transport is also increasing with this increasing population. Most of the people use public transport to go to desired places as they are less expensive. In a crowded city, traffic jam, mismanagement of the transport system and some other issues cause the desired transport not to reach the destination in proper time. People had to wait for a long time to get their desired transport. Moreover, there is also a security issue for the people during night time. In this paper, we proposed a framework for public transport management system using crowdsourcing for smartphones. This system will help users to find the nearest public transport like bus, train, etc. to their desired route. In this system, smartphones collect location information using GPS and send it to the system. Users have to provide their source and destination location for searching the available nearby public transports. Then, the system will track the nearby public transport information using mobile crowdsourcing. The users can view the exact position of the transport and reach the stoppage without wasting any time. This system helps the user to reduce their mental pressure and also increase their security. The entire experiment is done using only 300 public transport information for some region of Dhaka city. In future, we will increase the size of our data set. We will implement the system for different smartphones to make the system more user-friendly.