An Enhanced Railway Transport System using FPGA through GPS & GSM

Travel time information is a vital component of many intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications. In recent years, the number of passengers travels in train & number of trains in India has increased tremendously. Due to the increase in number of trains the train times may be delayed and the passengers have to wait at railway stations. A desirable strategy to deal with such issues is to provide better service (comfort, convenience and so on) the notification of location of time through GSM. One such application provides accurate information about train arrivals to passengers, leading to reduced waiting times at railway stations. This needs a real-time data collection technique, a quick and reliable data and informing the passengers regarding the same. The scope of this proposed system is to use global positioning system data collected from trains in the city in India, to show the location. The system consists of three modules: Vehicle section Module, BASE Station section Module, User mobile section Module. Equipped with PC and GSM modem, BASE Station Module sends the initialization information containing the train number to Vehicle section Module using SMS. The microcontroller based vehicle section Module consisting mainly of a GPS receiver and GSM modem then starts transmitting its location to BASE Station Module. BASE Station Module equipped with a microcontroller unit and GSM modems interfaced to PCs is designed to keep track record of every train, processes user request about a particular train location out of BASE Station and updates trains location at stations. GPS Module is installed at every station and consists of a GSM modem, memory unit and dot matrix display all interfaced to a microcontroller. This module receives trains location information coming towards that station from BASE Station module and displays the information on a dot matrix display. The performance of the proposed system is found to be promising and expected to be valuable in the development of advanced public transportation systems (APTS) in India. The work presented here is one of the first attempts at real-time short-term prediction of arrival time for ITS applications in India. KeywordsGPS;GSM; Intelligent transportation systems; Base Station Module; Vehicle section Module; User mobile section Module; rush statistical analysis