ONLINE RAILWAY RESERVATION SYSTEM

Team Members:Saurabh Singh

Ashwani

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction

Objective
Scope Project module Features Working limitations Conclusion

INTRODUCTION
The Indian

Railways (IR) carries about 5.5 lakhs

passengers in reserved accomodation every day.The

Computerised Passenger Reservation System(PRS) facilates the booking and cancellation of tickets from any of the 4000 terminals(i.e. PRS booking window all over the countries). These tickets can be booked or cancelled for journeys commencin in any part of India and ending in any other part, with travel time as long as 72hours and distance up to several thousand kilometers.

The project of PRS was launched on 15th November 1985,

over Northern Railway with the installation of Integrated

Multiple Train Passenger Reservation System(IMPRESS), an

online transaction processing system developed by Indian

Railways in association with Computer Maintenance

Corporation Ltd., at New Delhi. The objective was to provide

reserved accomodations on any train from any

counter,preparation of train charts and accounting of the

RAILWAY RESERVATION METHODS: ONLINE BOOKING: With the help of

this people can book their tickets online through internet, sitting in their home by a single click of mouse. Using their credit cards people can easily get their tickets done within minutes. There are certain charges for online booking as well.

COUNTER BOOKING: This is the

oldest method of booking the tickets. The reservation counters are there at railway department from where people can get the tickets to their respective destinations.

OBJECTIVE
1. In Online Railway Reservation System for booking the

tickets online the intended user has to enter details like username and password.
2. Once the username and passwords are verified then he

is allowed to enter the main system wherein he can select the destination, date and no of tickets.
3. For the purchase of the tickets he is asked for payment

details (like credit card details etc).

4. The user is also provided with a provision of canceling the

reservation where in the entire amount is credited back to his account.

5. The analysis part also comprises of the UML diagrams

that boost the program.

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

With the help of this people can book their tickets

online through internet, sitting in their home by a

single click of mouse. Using their credit cards people can easily get their tickets done within minutes. There

are certain charges for online booking as well.

Railway passengers frequently need to know about their ticket reservation status, ticket availability on a particular train or for a place, train arrival or departure details, special trains etc.. Customer information centers at the railway stations are unable to serve such queries at peak periods.

Benefits of Online Reservation

Information about the route , cancellation of tickets ,

departure time and many more such information can retrieve.

Store and retrieve information about various transaction

related to Rail Travel.

Keep track of all it passengers and schedule journey

accordingly.

SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION
Software required: Operating System(Server/Client Side) :-

Win03/XP/7.
Browsers like IE , Firefox etc.
Flash Players installed.

HARDWARE SPECIFICATION

It is the minimum requirement for running of this project.

IBM Pentium III /Core 2 /Dual core etc. 256 MB Ram. 80 GB or above Hard-disk. Color monitor Key-board

WORKING
Enter user id and password

verify password and user id

system

Make a reservation

user
Verify payments

Update reservations

cancellation of reservation

administrator

DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

0 LEVEL DFD:-

User

Transaction Process

websit e

1 LEVEL DATA FLOW DIAGRAM:Enter userid and password

verify user id and password Enter date Enter no of tickets Online train reservation system Check for the availability of date

Enter express name Make purchases

An entity-relationship (ER) diagram is a specialized graphic that illustrates the inter-relationships between entities in a database.

PASSENGER

Procedure

passenger/seat

Passenger Details (sign up)

Ticket Details Book Ticket

details Schedule/Discounts Info. Birth/Ticket Info.

BOOKING CENTRE

Booking Information Ticket confirmation

Ticket Confirmation

Cancellation/Chang e

Cancel/Change Confirmation
Schedule/Train Info . Seats available Class/Birth Schedule

ONLINE RAILWAY RESERVATION

Ticket Details

Passengers/Ticket Info

Amount

SCHEDULE

Paid Details

FARES

FUNCTIONS OF USER: Train Enquiry

Book tickets
Payments Check PNR status Cancel Ticket Detailed information of schedule Login & logout

LOGIN PAGE

TICKET BOOKING WINDOW

PNR STATUS WINDOW

CONCLUSION
Our project is only the gist of the online reservation system. Due to time constraints it was not possible to incorporate all the concepts related to the topic. So the program created is just an instance of the Original Online Railway Reservation System.