Automatic Bus Fare Collection System Using RFID

Abstract: India is the second largest populated country in the world so most of the people use public transport. During peak hours issuing tickets to each passenger manually is time consuming and tedious task and also a problem. The probability of ticket fraud is also high in this case. Since the tickets are made of papers it leads to deforestation and these tickets are of no use once when the passenger gets out of the bus. So in order to overcome all these difficulties we have a Smart ticketing system that is proposed using RFID to issue tickets to passengers. In order to ensure the passengers journey with no quarrels and mesh we employ this solution that replaces the traditional paper ticketing by electronic cards, vended through automated machine using smart cards, which improves the convenience and security of transaction. This project actually suggests a much more public friendly, automated system of ticketing with the use of RFID based tickets. Automatic Fare Collection System is implemented in this project through RFID (Smart) card. RFID card is given to the passenger and when passenger enters to the bus, he has to scan the card in the RFID reader. All the record will update automatically in the server continuously. RFID system through automated machine enables the passenger to predetermine the transport details. The control circuit is designed using arduino controller that will be interfaced with a DC motor to identify the distance travelled by the passenger to collect the fare amount. In addition a LCD is used for displaying the data.