WEB BASED RESERVATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ONLINE VEHICLE RESERVATION SYSTEM FOR UNION CABS SERVICE

Abstract

Union Cabs service is a rapidly growing company which has been serving the customers in Kottowa area and has earned the trust of their customers through more than 10 years of quality service. At present Union cab service is the most popular cab service in the Kottawa, Maharagama, Homagama and Piliyandala areas. And also lot of vehicle owners now encourage to joining with them. Union Cab Service currently does their work manually and has no proper documentation procedure. As a result of this they are facing various difficulties. Therefore with this project an effort has been made to improve the system quality and efficiency. The entire system is divided in to two sub systems, namely reservation information management system and online vehicle reservation system. The reservation information management system will handle the Union Cabs information like Vehicle, Drivers, Officers, reservations, and customer details and generate required reports for the management. Online service to reserve vehicles for online customers will be provided through the online vehicle reservation system, and also better information about the Union cabs service will be provided through this. As additional features SMS gateway and payment gateway have been integrated to get the advantage of new technology. The system has been developed according to the three-tier architecture and also some Object Oriented techniques have been employed. Unified Modeling Language was used in the analysis and design stages of the project. WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and Prototype Javascript framework are the main technology selection for this system. HTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS and SQL are the programming language used for this system. UMLet was used as a tool to design UML diagrams, and RISE Editor to design database. This dissertation comprises of all the functions that were carried out during this project in fulfilling the required objectives. This is divided in to chapters for the purpose of clearly defining and explaining the work carried out during each phase of this project. Each chapter consist of a detailed explanation of each phase, and uses clear diagrams, charts and graphs for the purpose of further explaining these things.