Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction

Nowadays lot of people travelling thorough bus and demanding on bus transportation has increase over the years. Among all public transportation services, bus service is the major transportation used by public. Especially in a busy town , bus is the most easy, convenient and cheaper transportation. Many reasons that people take bus instead of driving own vehicle such as traffic jam, heavy parking fee and lack of parking slot in destination. However, bus transportation service has very poor transportation information system nowadays. Bus user do not know the exactly arrival time for a bus, but only know the scheduled arrival time. Compare to train or flight transportation system, bus transportation service doesn’t have a proper system to track all buses position and the actual arrival time in every bus stops. These problems occur because current bus service system did not apply time tracking technology to track on each buses on the road and also lack of a platform to update latest bus traffic information to bus users. In the past few year many developer develop different type of application which give convenient to the society. There are many versions and update after the release of original version of android.

1.2 Problem Statement

One of the problems occurring in current bus service is bus users did not know exactly what time a bus will arrive, but only know the scheduled arrival time. Bus users needs to wait for a bus without knowing what time the bus will arrive actually. Sometime, bus users might feel impatient when they waiting for a bus, if they do not know what time the bus will arrive especially when bus users rushing of time for certain reason. Additionally, this situation wasted a lot of time when waiting in bus stop because the time wasted can actually spend on other matter. Besides,