IRJET- Reducing Transportation Cost by Managing Rides using an Android Application

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 05 Issue: 03 | Mar-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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Reducing Transportation Cost by Managing Rides Using an Android
Application
Dr. S. Roselin Mary1, S. Prabhu2
1,2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Anand Institute of Higher Technology,Kazhipattur,Chennai-603103.
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Abstract - Transportation has become a mandatory
requirement for every person in their life. It is inevitable
that everyone are required to travel to some distance to
complete their daily activities. Although there are lots of the
public transport modes such as Buses and Trains, they alone
are not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the people.
The proposed system involves the management of providing
rides in bikes and cars by the vehicle owners with
compensation benefits. Initially, the user is required to
register with their personal information. Once their account
is activated, they will be asked for vehicle information in
case of vehicle owner along with their national identity
proofs which is for both the vehicle owner and the
commuters. Users can start or book a ride as soon as their
national identity is verified by the system administrator.
Amount for the ride will be calculated based on the distance
travelled with respect to the fuel economy of the vehicle and
number of persons in case if the vehicle is a four wheeler.
Thus, the application enhances transportation by reducing
the cost, traffic and pollution along with the cost benefits to
the vehicle owners.
Keywords: Global Positioning System, Mobile application, Ride
sharing, Transportation.
I. INTRODUCTION
Mobile computing is a ubiquitous computing in which
computer is expected to be transported during normal
usage, which allows for transmission of data, voice and
video. Mobile computing encompasses a number of
technologies and devices, such as wireless LANs, notebook
computers and smartphones. Android comes with the great
opportunity of implementing personal mobile applications.
Mobile applications are playing an ever-increasing role
within transportations, e-ticketing and yields many benefits.
Android’s default user interface is mainly based on direct
manipulation using touch inputs along with a virtual
keyboard. Android has a growing selection of third-party
applications, which can be acquired by users by
downloading and installing the application’s APK file.
Android devices are usually battery-powered; Android is
designed to manage processes to keep power consumption
at a minimum. Android manages the applications stored in
memory automatically. The base Android operating system
is open-source software. Android smartphone users have
access to few taxi and online ticketing applications. Many
such devices can connect to the internet and interconnect
with other devices car entertainment systems or headsets
via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or near field communication (NFC).
Transportation is one of the key requirements for any
people in the world. Maps plays a major role in
transportation such a suggesting routes, identifying
locations and tracking persons nowadays. Almost all android
smartphones have a GPS feature. The GPS receiver is used
for tracking people based on their smartphone location and
estimate distance from the current location to a certain
place. The android devices require internet connection and
normally uses a GPS satellite connection to determine its
location. Mobile Application Development is the term used
to denote the act or process by which application software
are developed for mobile devices, such as personal digital
assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones.
These applications can be pre-installed on phones during
manufacturing platforms, or delivered as web applications
using server-side or client-side processing (e.g. JavaScript)
to provide an “application-like” experience within a Web
browser. Application software developers also must
consider a long array of screen sizes, hardware
specifications, and configurations because of intense
competition in mobile software and changes within each of
the platforms. Mobile app development has been steadily
growing, in revenues and jobs created.
II. RELATED WORKS
The “Smart 24x7” android application has been created for
the personal safety & security [1] for personal & business
use that alerts emergency contacts with your GPS location.
This is a unique approach towards strengthening citizen
security. This application can also be used by citizens to
secure them when they are in distress by sending SOS
signals to their closed ones.
Vroom is an on demand two wheeler ride sharing platform
[2] designed to provide a safe, quick, and affordable means
of transportation enabling first and last mile connectivity to
city commuters. It is a taxi application where only the
drivers assigned by the company to attend passengers.

Two Factor Authentication Using Mobile Phone (Android)
has been developed [3]. The main purpose of this method is
to provide the stronger authentication in online transaction.
Mobile phone is used for the purpose of generation of OTP. It
improves the security of Internet payments by providing an
additional password to the user. The primary benefit of this
system is the reduction in disputed transactions and the
resultant exception handling expense and losses.
Analysis of advanced issues in mobile security in android
operating system [4] about the android operating system
security which has been developed for mobile phones.
Android mobile applications are evolving at a meteor pace
to given a rich and fast user experience. For verifying the
reputation of the any application, the android device
contacts AM cloud. The increasing order of the hardware
and software platforms of mobile devices and promotion of
mobile internet have brought a great opportunity to the web
application to develop for mobile platforms.
Navigation Systems for Fastest Route which was developed
to use the GPS navigation system by combining the use of
signals from the satellites with interactive on-board maps
[5], navigation systems can plot routes of travel to a given
destination based on a number of variables. Some navigation
systems are interconnected with sources of traffic
information, enabling them to automatically account for
construction and congestion when determining the best
route.
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM
This system is to manage rides, which is not a profit based
management. The vehicle owners and also the passengers
must register with the application before availing the
services offered by the system. Once the registration is
successful user can login into the application. Vehicle
owners who are going to start to a place can update the
information such as source destinations and number of
available seats and submit. Passengers who are looking for a
ride can search for the available rides nearby and choose the
one which suites them the most and request them. Once the
request is accepted by the vehicle owner the trip is
confirmed location of the passenger is lively tracked and
shown to the driver to pick them and start the trip after otp
verification. On completion of the trip the amount is
calculated based on the fuel consumed to travel to that
particular distance and displayed through application to
both the users. Review and rating system is established for
each successful trip to certify the users.
Figure 1: Architecture Diagram
VEHICLE OWNER
Vehicle owners can view a splash page when they
login. The application has GPS based location detector which
allows to spot the passenger. Vehicle owner can sign in and
sign off from the application as well as set the current status
of the ride. The vehicle owner can accept or reject the ride
request based on their preferences. The ETA is calculated
based on the distance between the customer and the vehicle.
Payments are received by the vehicle driver when a trip is
complete or it can be transferred through the e-wallet.

PASSENGER
A splash screen appears for the passenger when they sign in
into the application. The location of the end user is detected
via GPS. The passenger enters the destination place using
the drag pin to target location or by manually typing the
place in the text box. Passenger can add comments about
other facilities needed. The mode of payment can be fixed
such as cash or e-wallet which is then confirmed. Passenger
can view list of rides available in Google map within 500m.
The estimated time for the vehicle owner is calculated by the
application. User can choose the nearest ride and ping them
on their phone as a request message for their travel.
Passenger can also rate the service provided by the vehicle
owner.
Passenger can also save location for future trips. Passengers
can cancel ride based on the cancellation policy.
IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULT
The experimental results are encouraging, allowing us to
consider that seamless integration of hybrid management
systems for transportation could have tremendous
economic and social impact at global scale. It reduces the
transportation cost for the user availing the services both
vehicle owner and also the passenger. Further it also
reduces the traffic and the pollution in the metropolitan
cities and provides comfortable rides at low cost for the
passengers along with a part of fuel cost for the person who
owns the vehicle.
V. CONCLUSION
In this paper we have proposed a ride management and
sharing application that can be used by peoples with and
without vehicles. It provides a kind of pooling services
which could reduce the transportation cost for both the
vehicle owners and the passengers. Live tracking is provided
by GPS system which helps in providing location
information of both vehicle owner and the passenger and
also to provide navigation through the fastest route.
VI. REFERENCES:
[1] Android App “Smart 24x7” developed by Smart 24x7
Response Services https://www.smart24x7.com/mobile-
safety-apps/android-safety-app/
[2] Navigation Systems for Fastest Route by Prof.Suvarna
Pansambal, Nikhil Iyer, vira Meherkar, International Journal
of Advanced Research in Computer And Communication
Engineering.
[3] Android App “vroom” One Cipher Solutions Private
Limited
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vroom
[4] Analysis of advanced issues in mobile security in android
operating system Anjaneyulu G. S. G. N, Gayathri M. and
Gopinath G Archives of Applied Science Research, 2015, 7
(2):34-38.
[5] Two Factor Authentication Using Mobile Phone
(Android) Rahul Kale, Neha Gore, Kavita, Nilesh Jadhav,
Swapnil Shinde Journal of Computer Engineering and
Informatics.
[6] Intelligent Carpooling System A Case Study for Bacău
Metropolitan Area Elena Nechita, Gloria-Cerasela Crişan,
Sergiu-Mădălin Obreja and Constantin-Sebastian Damian

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