Android Application For General Railway
Ticket Booking
Department of Information Technology
Chettinad College of Engineering and Technology
T.Ahalya S.Surya
Department of IT, Department of IT,
CNCET, Puliyur , CNCET, Puliyur
Ahalya.tp@gmail.com suryavinaiya@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
One of the biggest challenges in the current
ticketing facility is "QUEUE" in buying our
general railway tickets. In this fast growing
world of technology we still stand in the queue
or buy with paper Ticket for our general tickets.
In this Android App for General Railway
(AAGR) ticketing is mainly to buy the general
tickets through mobile. Our AAGR ticket can be
bought with just a smart phone application,
where you can carry your general railway tickets
in your smart phone as a SMS(Electronic
Reservation Slip (ERS)). Also the ticket
checker is provided with a checker application
to search for the user's ticket with the ticket date
and time in the cloud database for checking
purposes. The train have two types of
comportments such that reservation and
unreservation comportment. The user can only
booking the ticket through online in reservation
comportment. There is no websites or app for
booking the tickets for unreservation
comportment. To create an innovative android
application for the user can book the ticket for
unreservation comportment. In this app also
Contains many features such as the user can
view the all train arrival time for the railway
station
Keywords- Android; MySql; Cloud Database;
I. INTRODUCTION
Indian Railway carries about 7.24 million
passengers daily. Due to rapidly increasing
number of passengers, there is a bottleneck on
A.Shalini A .Sivaramakrishnan M.E.,
Department of IT, Assistant Professor/ IT ,
CNCET,Puliyur, CNCET,Puliyur,
shaliniannadurai@gmail.com sivaramakrishnan@gmail.com
the existing system due to long queues and
something that will enable faster, smoother and
better travelling is the need of the day. But
technologies such as NFC and AFC cannot be
implemented due to social and economic
conditions around here. Such systems require
huge financial resources which will indirectly
lead to increased ticket prices and 90% of
commuters travelling by MSR cannot afford this
rise. Also such technologies require considerable
infrastructure. With around 7.24 million
commuters travelling daily, there are huge space
constraints at the railway stations of Mumbai. So
SMS ticketing can offer better prospects keeping
in mind the financial and space constraints of
Mumbai. But as of yet, such a system has not
been introduced, because the main business
limitation is that when premium SMS is used for
ticketing, around 40% of the transaction value is
retained by the mobile operator and SMS
aggregator, which is not viable when the ticket
has a conventional profit margin. ATVMS
overcomes this issue by eliminating the
involvement of any of these. The existing
systems, ATVM and CVM in the Mumbai
Suburban Railways are now failing to deliver
their promises of imparting hassle free travelling
and there is dire need of introduction something
innovative, promising and least costly.
II. THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF
ANDROID MOBILE
Android is a softwarestack for mobile devices
that includes an operating system, middleware
and key applications. The Android SDK
provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin
developing applications on the Android platform
using the Java programming language. It is a
Linux-based operating system for mobile
devices such as Smartphone's and tablet
computers. It is developed by the Open Handset
Alliance led by Google.
Android has a large Community of developers
writing applications ("apps") that extend the
functionality of the devices. Developers write
primarily in a customized version of Java. Apps
can be downloaded from third-party sites or
through online stores such as Android Market,
the app store run by Google. As of October 2011
there were more than 400,000 apps available for
Android, and the estimated number of
applications downloaded from the Android
Market as of December 2011 exceeded lO
billion.
FEATURES:
Application framework enabling reuse and
replacement of components.
Dalvik virtual machine optimized for
mobile devices
Optimized graphics powered by a custom
2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on
the penGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware
acceleration optional).
Media support for common audio, video,
and still image formats (MPEG 4, H.264,
MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
B1uetooth, EDGE, 3G, and Wi-Fi
(hardware dependent)
Rich development environment including
a device emulator, tools for debugging,
memory and performance profiling, and a
plug-in for the Eclipse IDE
III.SYSTEM ANALYSIS
A.EXISTING SYSTEM:
In existing system, is used to m-Tickets via SMS
and NFC (Near Field Communication). In order
to access the service, the user had to perform a
subscription to his mobile network operator;
next the user has only to send a text message
(with a particular syntax) to the service centre.
The network operator will reply with another
text message indicating the ticket type, validity
time and other related information. The existing
ticketing system only applied for Suburban
trains. UTS App is available.
B.PROPOSED SYSTEM
The major advantage of ATVMS is that fare
deduction with each request message will not
happen from the commuters mobile phone
balance. Before using the system, the commuter
will have to first create account with the
railways which can be done at the ticket
window. In our proposed system , the General
tickets can be bought through the smart phone
itself.
C. ANDROID CLOUD TO DEVICE
MESSAGING FRAMEWORK
Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) is
a service that helps developers sends data
from servers to their applications on Android
devices. The service provides a simple,
lightweight mechanism that servers can use
to tell mobile applications to contact the
server directly, to fetch updated application
or user data. The C2DM service handles all
aspects of queuing of messages and delivery
to the target application running on the target
device.
IV.MODULES
A.LOGIN-To login User have to give their
registered username and password
B.REGISTER-The user have to register in the
railway database in order to buy tickets. It is an
one step process. Once the user created an
username and password , he/she can buy tickets
any number of times. To register , user have to
give their personal details such as their name,
email id, address ,state , country etc..
C.ONE TIME BOOKING (OTB)- In OTB (One
Time Booking) module is used for unregistered
user access this system for urgent purpose. An
unregistered users are used the OTR scheme for
ticket booking instantly. The User doesnt need
to login. Just once commuters book ticket
through the app.
D.ACCOUNT SETTING- In account settings ,
the user information activities are displayed.
Account settings is the module in which once
any user who gets in to the project gets an
account in which he could able to keep his
personal details and the necessary
transactions.Password settings also provided
V. SYSTEM DESIGN
A. EXPLANATION
1.) PERSONAL INFORMATION
GATHERING:
The work here starts during the fIrst time
installation of our application . It gathers the
basic customer information like fIrst name,
last name, date of birth, city , state etc., and it
will be stored into user mobile's, MYSQL
database. So every time when the user buys
the ticket this customer information is also
sent to the database for security purpose and
used also in the ID generation.
2.) TICKET BUYING:
The user selects source, destination, class,
no. of Adult and child tickets, ticket type
like single etc. then the user browse through
the menu option to choose either credit buy
option or token buy which simplifies the buy
process by remembering the credit card
details. Once the user chooses any of these
options the application moves on to the pin
code validation module.
B. ARCHITECTURE DESCRIPTION
The structure of system divided into two
components.
The customer application which resides
personal information gathering, buying ticket,
Date validation, Time validation and stored
into cloud database.
The checker application is to validate the
ticket by entering the ticket number of the
user and searching in the cloud database to
check whether the user has bought the ticket.
IV. CONCLUSION
In this paper we have presented a mobile
ticket application developed for Android 4.4
using Java, MySQL, and PHP on the server
side which can change the way people buy
their tickets in future. This kind of ticketing
application can be applied to any kind of
transport system. Our android app is one of
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in our project user can view the train Publishing Inc.
scheduling such that arrival and dispatch time.
And view the name of the train also. The user
just enters the train name and it displays the
arrival and dispatch of the train.

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