Darideepa: A Mobile Application for bus notification system

This paper gives an overview of the Mobile Application Darideepa developed for bus tracking and notification system for Transport Systems. This paper aims at giving passengers the information about the departure of the subscribed bus from the starting point or the passengers can also subscribe for the number of stops from which he wants the notifications. This is done using a VMD (Variable Message Display) which tracks the coordinates of the bus and sends this information to the Server. By checking the passenger´s needs, a notification about the bus with the time is broadcasted to GSM module of all the passengers who have subscribed for similar type of service. For subscribing for a bus and to get the notification, a Mobile Application based on Android OS is developed. The application is tried on less number of buses first and later it will be tested on huge transportation system.