ABSTRACT

Transportation provides access to natural resources and promotes trade, allowing a nation to accumulate wealth and power. Transportation system and the routes they use have greatly influenced both how and where people live. Reliable transportation allows a population to expand throughout a country's territory and to live comfortably in remote areas far from factories and farms. This research work is concise and generally summarizes the activities duly carried out in the design and implementation of an Online Transport Booking' System and Private Charter for River State Transport Company (RTC) Port Harcourt, River State. The goal of the system is to providing a web-based bus ticket reservation function where a customer can buy conunercial/executive vehicle ticket through the online system without a need to queue up at the counter to purchase a bus ticket. Currently, the type of system being used at the counter is an internal system which is manually used in selling the commercial/executive vehicle tickets. Customers have to go to the counter to buy commercial/executive vehicle ticket or ask for commercial/executive vehicle schedule and also have to queue up for a long time in order to secure a commercial/executive vehicle ticket. It would be of great necessity to design a computerized system that will provide a substitute channel for transport booking activities to be carried out. The objectives of the proposed system are to Enabling customers to check the availability and types of commercial/executive vehicle online, Customer can check the time departure for every RTC commercial/executive vehicle through the system, Easing commercial/executive vehicle ticket payment by obtaining a bank pin after payments is made to the various designated banks, ability of customers to cancel their reservation and the use of database will help in easy retrieval of information and control data concurrency. The study outlines the main concepts of the methodology and analysis of the proposed system, compares it to the existing and goes further to explain the design and implementation of the system. The methodologies used are Waterfall model and Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology (OOADM). The fact finding techniques employed is Interview, observation, online and library research. The proposed system will be designed using HTML, CSS, PHP and MYSQL as database.