Bus Management & Road Accident Prevention System for Smart Cities

Reckless driving is a major traffic violation, caused by exceeding the speed limit, changing lanes irregularly, the drowsiness of drivers, or influence of drugs or alcohol on them. This dangerous driving practice often results in road accidents and injury or death of many innocent people. Therefore, we have come up with a new idea for this sector. Our system intends to implement a disciplined online payment service in the buses using an android application so that we can lessen the competitive tendency of the drivers to take more and more passengers. Using the application, passengers can view the location of nearby available buses. It will save their time and reduce congestion on the buses too. We will calculate the fare in the app through the scanning of QR (Quick Response Code) in and out code by the passengers. Before getting down from the bus, passengers can press a buzzer kept in front of their seats. It will also cause the LED (Light Emitting Diode) to lighten up beside the driver so that he can stop the bus at the right stoppage. Another two features of our system are drowsiness detection of the driver and lane detection of the bus. Whenever the driver will be either drowsy or will be in the wrong lane, the pi camera kept in front of him will trace the abnormality, and also the LED will be on. As a result, the driver will be alerted for safe driving. As we all know, prevention is better than cure, so our motto is to decrease the number of road accidents to a noticeable extent by preventing the vital cause of reckless driving. Therefore, just a little bit more caution from our positions can ensure a safer life for us.