Road Transport System permits a customer to observe the information about seat reservation, bus schedule and ticket sales as well as bus time of dispatch. The aim of this study is to design and implement a Computerized Transport System using Akwa Ibom Transport Company (AKTC) as a case study. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out to design a workable automated transportation system software and create a system that can be used to record transportation records to database. The motivation that led to the implementation of the proposed system is as a result of the difficulty in obtaining reports of transportation records and the errors involved in the accurate computation of transportation bill information.
The methodology adopted in this study is the object oriented analysis and design methodology (OOADM) which is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application or system by applying object throughout the software development process. The programming language used is HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, SQL and JQUERY. The reason why web programming languages was used is because, it is platform independent and it is a web based application.
This project will be of benefit to Road Transport Companies, and Logistics Companies. The expected result is an automated web based Road Transport System that will give information about trip schedule, seat and type of buses available for dispatch and the system will generates an accurate bill for ticket payment purpose.
1.1 Introduction
Road Transport System permits a customer to know the information about the bus schedule and ticket. Nowadays, online are very common issues to everyone so that checking information using online can save allot of time to the customer, so that customer no need to go to the counter to ask of bus and schedule. Road Transport System is a complex system that is difficult to be managed by human, so as a result software system can be used instead of human, which will help to avoid a big percent of mistakes. Automated Road Transport System make process of scheduling trips more easier and prevent conflicting in time, also it help customers to book their tickets from their homes and checks the pricing system of the routes, the price of ticket may increase or decrease depending on the season, availability, time of booking, and also depending on the class that customer select and all these factors will be calculated automatically and instantly.
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
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