'Route-Me' - A Mobile App and Web Based System to manage Vehicles and Drivers

Abstract

In a large company, scheduling and tracking of their vehicles are not an easy process. In Sri Lanka, there are less organized systems for scheduling vehicles in a company. If the business has to manage and track the company vehicles, it takes much effort it takes to plan and manage the calendar. It gets more complicated when scheduling and managing trips with manual process. Global E marketing solution is a leading classified advertising and marketing company. The company prepares and places advertisements on websites, weekly business newspapers, legal papers, magazines, and various monthly directories. They have teams to visit site locations and collect advertisements. In the current business context, human lifestyles have become more and more complex and complicated. People expect to have much easier, simple and productive systems that they can use to achieve their daily needs successfully and effectively This Master’s Thesis defines an implementation of a system which replaces the Global E - marketing solution's manual operating process. “Route-Me” is a mobile app and a web based system for managing vehicles and drivers easily and cost effectively. As the main users of the system are employees, transport manager and drivers more attention is put towards the UI designing. The mobile application is created with feature-rich and eye-catching to enhance the user experience and ease of use. This mobile application is developed using Android and the Web based System is developed using HTML, CSS, PHP and Maria DB (MySQL). This proposed solution has a mobile application and a web based system, which helps to find optimized routes. This solution consists of time windows for drivers to create routes which enable employees to cover more destinations while remaining on the schedule. This has mobile components for on-the-go updates and tracking the route. The objective of this is allowing managers and employees to work together and get maximum efficiency in each operation. With a subjective evaluation shows this mobile application and the web based system provide and idle solution