Effective transportation system has effective movement of goods and people which leads to better quality of life and better social and economic growth of the society. Transportation system forms the heart of the system. With the population boom vehicle population is also rapidly increasing which is further leading to heavy traffic. Optimal solution to this problem is the use of public transport. However public transport schedules are unreliable and waiting for bus for long results is waste of time. But a system that provides complete information namely the number of buses that go to the required stop, bus numbers, bus timings, time taken for the bus to reach, the routes through which the bus goes, maps that guides the passengers and most importantly tracking the real time bus location coordinates and finding correct time the bus will take to reach its bus stop. The Bus Tracking system proposed in this paper is laid down in Patiala, India. Travelling in Patiala is very difficult especially for the students. As students is the major population using public transport.
But, however the bus service is not reliable. To come over these day to day problems Bus Tracking System has been set up
on the major route of the city. This system uses the Android platform with the built in GPS receiver in the smart phone. This paper is organized as follows: Section II comprises of the Need for the system. Section III gives the Review of the Existing system and section IV Describes the major components of the Bus Tracking system. Section V describes the equations for Bus arrival time calculations and Section VI shows the Results and Conclusion.