Abstract:
Smart transportation is playing a vital role as an important building block in smart city, providing solutions to many issues that relate to traffic on the road. This influences safety and quality
of living (QoL), the main goals of smart city development. Smart transportation system in an
urban area will saves time, saves environment by reducing fuel consumption and unwanted driving time. This study presents a smart transportation solution to improve public transportation
system as it can facilitate more customers in single ride which utilizes the effective use of limited road network in country. Also, this represents a literature review based on previous related
studies done on smart transportation in smart cities in order to understand the research area as
well as the future research needs and gaps to be fulfilled. Here it provides a solution where
it can facilitate passengers as unpredictability and uncomfortableness of public transportation
are found as the greatest reasons for people to move in to private transportation. The solution
proposes a real time system where it indicate bus location, information, seat occupancy, time
to reach passengers pickup place and same information about next bus on mobile phones, websites and on display board at bus stands as this will reduced the time that passengers have to
waste on road. In the methodology used here first current systems failures and difficulties are
identified by conducting questionnaire. Then available and proposed solution for the issues are
found through literature review and a solution was proposed finally to identify and facilitate
user by providing needed information for them. Here the system was developed as the result,
which can provide bus location information, seat availability information and next bus arrival
and other related information. Here GSM, GPS modules were used and sensors to calculate seat
occupancy was used. An IoT based smart transportation solution was proposed to improve the
public transportation and reduce traffic on road.
