Barcode Based Fare Ticketing System for AA LRT

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2017-06-16

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Addis Ababa University

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Technological development has resulted in a boundary free digital world. This development has resulted in transaction through virtual money instead of real ones, e-ticketing is mostly used system for such transactions. But AA LRT uses weak and unreliable ticketing system which is called paper ticketing. The thesis system makes use of barcode for verification and identification of the user. A unique barcode will be generated for each customer that is registered to the system. Using this barcode, the customer will be able to make transactions, which is an automated fare collection. This system solves all the drawback of the manual ticketing system which currently happened in AA LRT. Two dimensional bar codes could provide for more complex ticket types. The barcode based card number of the user is used which provides the information of the user. This system provides an efficient way of travelling while maintaining the security. This system is implemented using Visual studio 2013 development environment, C# programing language and database (SQL server). In the implementation of this system it requires barcode scanner with gate controller which scans the profile from the ID card, then sends to the database to check the validation and desktop application to register new customers profile and amount paid, generate the barcode based ID card, update customer balances and configured the stations. Finally, the system software is successfully developed.

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Barcode Scanner/reader, Electronics ticketing, Automatic fare collection (AFC), Database (SQL server), Wide Area Network, AALRT

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