Student Transit Portal: A Web–Based Platform for Managing Seasonal Native-Place Travel for Hostel Residents

Abstract

In many educational institutions such as colleges, they are hiring the government vehicles during the weekends for the hostellers to travel to their native places. Before journey, hostellers need to register their details manually. Students fill their details in forms which may lead to wrong entry and make offline payments. This may lead to data entry errors such as students’ details mismatch which may take more time for both students and staff to complete the task. To overcome these problems a dedicated web application has been developed to automate the registration and allocation process. The web application consists of two modules - students and administrator. The newly joined students can use their hostel admission number for signup and after that they can book their bus pass through their login credentials. In the administrator login, the students’ details and the travelling details can be managed. Admin can allocate the buses according to the places where the students need to travel. The backend is developed using python language whereas, for the frontend HTML and CSS is used with the database MySQL. This makes the people easy and pleasant to use. Updates carried out in the admin login will be reflected in the student’s login also. If there is any issue in the bus pass it can be easily rectified by the admin and also students can easy to track their data. Future enhancements for this platform include the integration of secure digital payment gateways and live GPS tracking to ensure a cashless, transparent, and safe journey for all residents.