| dc.description.abstract | Sri Lanka, as a developing country
faces rapid urbanization, which leads to high
mobility requirements. Due to increased traffic
congestions during peak hours, people tend to
select the railway system as their mode of
transportation. As a considerable amount of
people choose railway as their preferred
platform in their daily routine, it is highly crucial
to maintain an efficient and timely railway
system. Unfortunately, the Sri Lankan Railway
system is not known for its efficiency. As a result,
considerable number of daily users of the system
are affected in their daily routines. Increasing the
efficiency of underlying infrastructure has been
going on for decades, yet it has not been a
solution for the inefficiency of the railway system
itself. Hence, the only logical approach to address
this issue is to introduce a common platform,
which the users and Railway department can
communicate, while maintaining a stand-alone
system which can select optimum trains for the
users. The objective of this research is to discuss
the necessity of the proposed solution, ultimately
providing a solution to the inefficiency of the
railway system of Sri Lanka. The proposed
platform will comprise of two parts; A web
application for the railway department and an
Android-based mobile Application for railway
users. The web application will be powered by a
ESP8266 and NRF-24 based hardware modules
with a firebase Backend. A mobile application
will gather required inputs via the hardware
modules to provide users with an optimum train
to travel at any given time of the day towards the
required destination. System will be running
using dynamic data acquired from the train
stations with a dynamic train schedule. Users will
have the opportunity to get notified about train
delays, unavailability and breakdowns. The aim
of this research is to provide a common
communication platform to railway department
and public, ultimately making railway platforms
more efficient. | en_US |
