GPS based Automated Public Transport Fare Collection Systems Based on Distance Travelled by Passenger Using Smart Card

The aim of this paper is to provide a comfort tension free and easy way of travelling and also to reduce the man power. This paper involves the combined usage of smart cards and GPS to make travelling smarter. In our paper, Smart card which has become a common thing now, holds the data of the card holders and GPS which is an efficient tool in many fields like surveillance and tracking, which is used in here to find the distance travelled by the user. The smart card can be used by the user for entering and leaving the bus. Depending on the distance travelled, the money which has been paid in advance will be deducted from the card. This paper includes implementation of the Microcontroller which controls the entire system. It works effectively with GPS and smartcard. This study also stresses the need to make this system practical and the result that we will obtain is explained in this paper.