Proposal Report on android based minor project(GPS based travel)

GPS Based travel Project is aimed at people with Smart Phones helps them to figure out the effective route from their current place to their friend’s place. It will be developed as an application for android based phone systems which utilizes the GPS service of the phone system and Google Maps to show the effective route to his destination.

The positions of the bus stops are stored in the database which is used as nodes to form a graph for finding the shortest path. The position of the bus// vehicles   is tracked in every nodes (bus stops) it passes through. The location of the application user is found out by the GPS service of the phone system. After obtaining the destination, the effective path is calculated based on the position and route of the vehicles. This effective/optimum path is then plotted in the map and provided to the user.

The proposed system is an application for android phones which helps the  user to show the optimal routes from his current place to a particular destination. The optimal route is displayed in pictorial form by using google maps and highlighting the route.

Considering the privacy and security of the application user , the user can choose whom to display the information about his location as his will. This will create a network of friends which are able to share their real time location with each other.

The application that we are developing is aimed mostly at people of Kathmandu Valley. Since this application is developed on Android platform, a smart phone with Android OS with GPS support is needed for running the application. By acquiring information about location of user through GPS and the destination through the user, the effective route between the users place and the destination is then provided to the user through the use of Google Map.

The full copy of this Report is available here for download