FINAL YEAR PROJECT

TOPIC: ONLINE RAILWAY RESERVATION SYSTEM

SUBMITTED BY:

SAHELI GANGULY-23

ARPITA ROY-35

POULOMI ROY-56

SHALINI DAS-57

MENTOR-RUDRA PRATAP DEY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

CAMELLIA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

NADIBHAG, BARASAT

DATE OF SUBMISSION:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The satisfaction that accompanies that the successfulcompletion of any task would be incomplete without themention of people whose ceaseless cooperation made itpossible, whose constant guidance and encouragementcrown all efforts with success. We are grateful to our project guide Mr. Rudra Pratap Dey forthe guidance, inspiration and constructive suggestions thathelpful us in the preparation of this project.

Saheli GangulyArpita Roy

Poulomi RoyShalini Das

(4th year CSE)2011-12

India has some of the most spectacular and unforgettable rail journeys in the world. Here you experience a simple way to find out everything you need to know in one easy place. There’s no better

way to enjoy India’s outback, cities, coastal towns and regional areas in comfort .

INTRODUCTION TO THE RAILWAY RESERVATION SYSTEM : The Indian Railways (IR) carries about 5.5 lakhs passengers in reserved accommodation every day. The Computerized Passenger Reservation System (PRS) facilities the booking and cancellation of tickets from any of the 4000 terminals (i.e. PRS booking window all over the countries). These tickets can be booked or cancelled for journeys commencing in any part of India and ending in any other part, with travel time as long as 72hours and distance up to several thousand kilometers.

The project of PRS was launched on 15th November 1985, over Northern Railway with the installation of Integrated Multiple Train Passenger Reservation System(IMPRESS), an online transaction processing system developed by Indian Railways in association with Computer Maintenance Corporation Ltd., at New Delhi. The objective was to provide reserved accommodations on any train from any counter, preparation of train charts and accounting of the money collected. The application was implemented in 1987 Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Secunderabad subsequently.

WHY IS THE PARTICULAR TOPIC CHOSEN ?

Every day, Indian Railways sell millions of railway tickets for thousands of trains, considering how vast and complex the Indian Rail network is, we think they have devised an easy to understand system to ensure maximum occupancy in all classes on all bookable trains.

• On most of the reservation systems there are long queues, so it takes a long time for any individual to book the ticket.

OBJECTIVES: Railway passengers frequently need to know about their ticket reservation status, ticket availability on a particular train or for a place, train arrival or departure details, special trains etc. Customer information centers at the railway stations are unable to serve such queries at peak periods.

The number of the reservation counters available to the passengers and customers are very less.

SCOPE:Scope of this project is very broad in terms of other manually taking tickets.Few of them are:-_A passenger can travel anywhere by train with the help of this e-ticket._ Can be used anywhere any time as it is a web based application (userLocation doesn’t matter)._ No need that the ticket giver has to be present when the passengertakes the ticket.

FEATURES:_ Secure_ Easy to use_ Reliable and accurate_ No need to have any ticket giver/counter person.

FUNCTIONS OF USER:_Train enquiry_Book ticket_Payment_Check PNR status_Cancel ticket_Login & logout

FUNCTIONS OF ADMIN:

_Add / remove trains_Add / remove user_Book ticket_Cancel ticket_Get passenger list_Login &logout

• PROBLEM STATEMENT :

• This RAILWAY RESERVATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM should be able to manage all

the reservation related functions. The system should be distributed in nature. This system is

divided into five zones.

• NORTH ZONE

• SOUTH ZONE

• EAST ZONE

• WEST ZONE

• CENTRAL ZONE

• Each zone should have same functionalities. Each zone will stores the

information about train name, train schedules, availability. The administrator should

be able to enter any change related to the train information like change in train name,

number etc.

• The system should be able to reserve seat in a train for a passenger. First the clerk will check

for availability for the seats in a particular train on a specified date of journey. If it is

available the clerk will reserve seats. The passenger will be given a unique PNR no.

• The system should be able to cancel a reservation. The clerk will delete the entries in

the system.

In this project we are working with the Eastern Zone. So only the eastern railway trains will be discussed here. The Eastern Railway is one of the major zones of Indian Railways. Fairley Place in Kolkata being its headquarters, the Eastern zone is segregated into four divisions including Howrah, Malda, Sealdah, and Asansol for better administration.

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REQUIREMENTS

USER INTERFACE:

Keyboard and Mouse

HARDWARE INTERFACE:

Printer Normal PC

SOFTWARE INTERFACE:

Front end -> J2EEBack end -> oracle

COMMUNICATION INTERFACES

Indian Railway’s web-site, www.indianrail.gov.in offers PRS enquiries on the internet Berth/Seat availability, Passenger Status, Fare, Train Schedule etc.

National Train Enquiry System (NTES) website, www.trainenquiry.com gives dynamic information about the running status of any train and its expected arrival/departure at any given station.

Mobile telephone based SMS enquiry service. A new mobile phone based facility for rail users’ viz.,

Country wide extension of Universal Rail Enquiry number “139” through setting up of Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS)

OPERATING ENVIRONMENT:

The OS types are: Windows NTWindows XPWindows 98Linux

TRANSAC-TION PROCESSUSER WEBSITE

ONLINE TRAIN RESERVATI-ON SYSTEM

ENTER USER ID & PASSWORD

ENTER DATE

ENTER NO OF TICKETS

ENTER EXPRESS NAME

VERIFY USERID & PASSWORD

CHECK FOR THE AVAILABILITY OF DATE

MAKE PURCHASES

PROCESS DESCRIPTION:

1. Online Railway Reservation System, for booking the tickets online the intended user has to enter details like username and password.

2. Once the username and passwords are verified then he is allowed to enter the main system to select the destination, date and no. of tickets.

3. For the purchase of the tickets he is asked for payment details (like credit card details etc).

4. The user is also provided with a provision of canceling the reservation where in the entire amount is credited back to his account.

0 -LEVEL DFD DIAGRAM:

1-LEVEL DFD DIAGRAM:

ER DIAGRAM:

SNAPSHOTS:

e-ticket reservation form:

e-ticket:

CONCLUSION:-

• Our project is only the gist of the online reservation system.

• Due to time constraints it was not possible to incorporate all the concepts related to the topic.

• So the program created is just an instance of the Original Online Railway Reservation System.