Cityliner bus tracking system using mobile-based GPS / Wan Nur Alifah Illiana Wan Hanafi

The main purpose of this project is to develop Cityliner bus tracking system using Global Positioning System (GPS) tracker system in smartphone application to help passengers of Cityliner Bus in Kota Bharu track the current bus location in real-time. Besides that, to improve current bus transportation service system in Cityliner bus transportation service by introducing the bus tracking system and reducing the workload of bus management team. This proposed system can also show latest updated estimation arrival time of the bus. This project is using a device embedded inside the bus, which is the GPS tracker from the driver’s smartphone. However, this development is only developed for Android users. This application system is implemented in mobile application so that users can easily track the bus from their smartphones. The GPS tracker device will transmit data of the bus coordinates by continuously receiving updated position from the GPS satellite, then send the data to the central server to process the real time information. Therefore, passengers able to know the movements of the bus as they use this application system.