Easy Navigation of Bus using Alert system

Abstract

For most of the city public transport travelers, bus arrival time is a most important information. In the recent year popularity of Bus alert system has been increased to avoid passengers excessively long waiting time at bus stops. The bus alert system may contain micro-controller to process bus route information, RFID reader to read bus route and number arrive at bus stop, LCD to display bus route, bus number and bus arrival status information. The aim of this paper is to get bus time information and bus status like cancel or delay information for passengers who are available on the bus stop also providing flexibility for blind passenger to walk down to any bus route path to get the bus instead of any specific bus stop using wired and wireless technologies achieved through RS485 and RFID communication. Programming has been developed in Keil environment for ARM controller operation and MPLAB for PIC controller and VB programming for PC database to log the status of bus.