Traintracker: a prototype of android application for train schedule real-time system / Fariqh Falahi Alias

The development of modern technologies especially in communication and extensive usage of Smartphone enable us to utilize numerous applications provided by the developers. The non-stop expanding of technologies have improved the transportation services by providing us a lot of applications in online trading and services such as train ticketing application, train tracker application, travel guide application and much more. There is no such application that can keep track and gives the real time schedules to the public transport users in Malaysia, especially train users where most of the users were having the same problem to allocate time for waiting the train which the possibility for the users to miss the train and not getting on the train because of it is too packed especially during peak hours is high. The motivation for the improvement of an embedded system for train schedule is to replace human experts to smart phones due to the evolution of the technology. In this project, a prototype of the Android development application system for train schedule real-time forecast is built in order to solve this problem which focusing on our country’s light rail transit (LRT). There are three objectives of this project that is to identify the requirements, to design and to develop the mobile application prototype of RapidKL real-time schedule system. The scope is narrowed down and focused on Kelana Jaya line, which is from Kelana Jaya to Gombak. This project is expected to create a prototype of the Android application system that able to help all light rail transit users in managing their time with the use of their smart phone. In terms of commercial value, the application for train real-time scheduling application is novel and the outcome of the project can be used by Rapid KL itself. This project proposes a developing process by using the Prototype Model which has four major phases that should chronologically conducted. The first phase is identifying the user’s need while the second phase is developing a working prototype. The third phase of the development process is implementing the system and conduct a live test and last but not least, the fourth phase where the system is revised and enhanced. The result indicates that the prototype application created can be implemented in Rapid KL where the probability for any new development needed is varied. As for recommendations,Traintracker should do a joint venture with RapidKL to get the data integration for the real-time scheduling to happen and notification alert can be done as it makes the user aware with the train whereabouts.