Abstract:
The main aim of our thesis is to relieve general mass from the regular hassle of waiting in long
queues for public transport such as bus. We plan to do so by developing an android based cell
phone application (app) which will provide information, such as “accurate nearest location” of a
bus in a particular route and “time left” for its arrival, to the users of this app waiting in a bus
stop. The project is done by using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology (radio
frequency receiver and radio frequency tags) and microcontrollers. These devices transmit
vehicles location to remote servers and based on that servers use established technique to
calculate approximate time left for bus arrival and distribute this information to the respective
clients’; the cell phone application, which we named as “Amar Bus”. We believe this free app
will make commoners’ everyday life easier and improve overall experience of commuting in
busy metro city of developing country, like Dhaka.
