Abstract:
A considerable fraction from the general
population use trains as their means of transportation in Sri
Lanka [1]. Even though the railway system fulfils the
transportation needs of a lot of people, being one of the cheapest
means of travelling, it has its own disadvantages as well, such as
the regular delays of trains. Most of the time, the passengers get
to know about the delays of trains after they have reached the
railway stations. An effort made to reduce the effect this
particular issue is discussed through this paper. The proposed
solution is a mobile application powered by crowdsourcing,
which let the users of the application know where a particular
train is at a particular moment. Thus by letting them know
whether the train in which they are willing to travel is on
schedule or not and arrange other means of transport as
necessary.
