Railway Reservation and Management System

PROJECT

ByAakarsh Mohan and Shashanker Das

Introduction

Railway Reservation and management system manages a railway website that provides public interaction and services.

Project’s scope is about how to use predefined railway timetable data and use it to manage your journey plans, give you a brief idea about trains available for public services and writing complaints for bad services of railways.

Main Idea

Main idea behind the project is having a database related to train timings, possible fair of journey and possible trains between two stations.

People can come and do ….

» Train enquiries » Seat availability in trains» Booking tickets for their journey» Journey Expenditure» Cancelation of pre-booked tickets» Complaints regarding railway management and staff etc.

Relations

Primarily we’re going to require relations having all the details of the available trains and stations that would be

» Trains» Stations» Administration

Then data of all the individual trains and stations lets say » Train_#Train_no» Station_#Station_code

Finally we come to the reservation lists of people» Confirmed_reservation» Waiting_reservation

Schema : Trains

The data in the train table would be all the basic information about all the trains available.

Trains

Train_no Numeric 5

Train_name Varchar 40

Train_type Varchar 15

Superfast Boolean

{Available _classes} Varchar

{Working_days} Varchar

Schema : Stations

The data in the stations table will have all the basic information about all the station.

Stations

Station_code Varchar 5

Station_name Varchar 40

Station_type Varchar 1

Zone Varchar 2

Schema : Administration

Administration table will contain the data regarding the administration of the station and will also allow people to write online complains to the proper personnel regarding any inconvenience or service issue.

Administration

Station_code Numeric 5

Sr_station_master Varchar 40

Jr_station_master Varchar 40

Executive_engineer Varchar 40

Station_budget Numeric 10

Catering_Incharge Varchar 40

Schema : Train_#Train_no

The following table will contain the data of all the station the train passes through plus the distance from the origin station and the accurate timings of arrival and departure from any station on the way.

Later the relation can be used to calculate journey expenses and travel time of passengers.

Train_#Train_no

Station_code Varchar 5

Arrival _time Time

Departure_time Time

Distance_travelled Numeric 4

Schema : Station_#Station_code

Table will represent data of all the trains passing through any possible station .

Station_#Station_code

Train_no Numeric 5

Schema : Confirmed_reservation

The data of the passenger got a confirm reservation in their respective trains.

Confirmed _reservation

PNR_no Numeric 15

Coach Varchar 2

Birth Numeric 2Passenger_name Varchar 40Passenger_age Numeric 3Passenger_gender Varchar 1Train_no Numeric 5Starting_station Varchar 5Ending_station Varchar 5Quota Varchar 2

Mobile_no Numeric 10

Schema : Waiting_reservation

The data of the passenger didn’t get a confirm reservation in their respective trains and they are in the waiting list.

Confirmed _reservation

PNR_no Numeric 15

Waiting_no Numeric 3

Passenger_name Varchar 40Passenger_age Numeric 3Passenger_gender Varchar 1Train_no Numeric 5Starting_station Varchar 5Ending_station Varchar 5Quota Varchar 2

Mobile_no Numeric 10

Entity Relationship Model

An entity relationship model of the following database is given in the following page that describes the relationship among different entity sets.

Stations Trains

Waiting _reservationConfirmed_reservation

Train_#Train_no_1 Train_#Train_no_2Station_#Station_code_2Station_#Station_code_1

Administration

admins C_list W_list

passes

have have contains contains

[Will have ‘n’ number of stations as entities] [Will have ‘n’ number of trains as entities]

Architecture

Back End• Contains the entire

databases of railways and their relationship models.

Application Program• Calculates the

journey fair journey time and distance travelled and such information.

Front End• Contains the

PHP/XHTML page for the reservation site.

• Reservations, cancelations, enquires and complaints can be done.

There is a three level architecture involved in the database.

Process: Application Program

Application program would calculate the following things

» Distance Travelled» Time of Journey» Total fair of Journey» Seat Allotment» Waiting List auto Cancelation» Refund Money Calculation» Calculation of Concession etc.

[NOTE: The application program will also calculate some auto fill data like Time_of_Journey, complaint filling data etc.]

Calculations

Travel fair would be calculated according to the distance travelled within particular class of travel and deductions regarding respective quotas.

That would be….» SC (Senior Citizen)» PH (Physically handicapped)» Military Personnel etc.

The calculations would be like

Travel expense = (Total distance travelled)*(Per kilometer charge) - Deductions(Calculated w.r.t percentage)

Front End

Menus» Reservation : for new reservations » Cancelation of ticket : for existing confirmed/waiting.» Complaints : regarding facilities provided by railways.

Process: Reservation

Step II Step III

Selection of train

Selection of Class

Starting Station

Date of Journey

Ending Station

Personal info +

Payment of money

Step I

Process: Cancelation

Partial

• Cancelling Tickets of ticket of some particular passengers under the same PNR no

• Requires details of PNR and name age sex and seat no of the particular passenger.

Complete • Cancelation of tickets of all passengers under the same PNR no

• Requires PNR no

Auto

• If a passengers ticket doesn't get confirmed in the final chart of the train then requires an auto cancelation of ticket.

• All ticket from waiting list whose time of journey is past.

Cancelation

Process: Complaints

1

2

3

Open the complaint portal and fill up your personal entries for example train no, date of journey etc.

Fill the details of the department you’re having complaints with and describe your problem.

Click on submit, an automatic complaint application will generate on your behalf and it will be sent to the designated officer.

Any Questions ?

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