Parcel monitoring and delivery system on public transport

Abstract

The parcel monitoring and delivery system on public transport busses system enables clients using buses in Uganda to track their parcel during and after transit. The system was developed due to claims of delays and sometimes failure to receive parcels by clients of bus companies in Uganda. This report highlights the project objectives ,problems ,methodologies ,limitations ,conclusions and recommendations we arrived at during the project course. Data collection and analysis of the existing systems was carried out at bus companies like posta Uganda limited ,Modern Coast Coaches Limited, pioneers bus, YY coaches,baby coach buses and link busses where we analysed the strength and weakness of the existing system.we also carried literature review from related tracking system like UPS,Fedex, and DHL of other countries so as to get abetter understanding on how the systems were instantiated. Our case study mainly based on Moden Coast Coaches Limited which is a popular luxury coach company which operates with in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda. Since its inception on 26th may 2007, the company has managed to offer exceptional luxury bus services throughout the East Africa region. Currently, they have over 50 branches in Kenya, 7 branches in Tanzania, 5 branches in Uganda, and 1 branch in Rwanda. , Modern coast coaches has been handling clients booking details using the munual based systems the study of the existing sysrem was carried using observations ,interview;literature view of the acompany and questionaires this led to abetter understanding of the existing system and refined our user requirements ,its from the requirements that the system specifications were outlined and the system design and development based on them the system design was then implemented using laraval framework, PHP (laraval), flutter (dart) for the backend , MySQL and HTML using a client/server artchitecture with a database running on the server and the interfaces running on the client personal computer. we also used flutter for the mobile application to enable the application run on both android and apple phones. The system is aimed at solving information problems at Modern Coast Coaches Limited