Trainko: poster abstract: train arrival time prediction system for Sri Lanka

Abstract

Transportation system is a massive enterprise with substantial direct and indirect effects on economic growth of a country, and train system is playing a major role of the transportation system. However, the train system in Sri Lanka is usually late and the passengers come to the stations without knowing the train arrival time, whereas the passengers waste their valuable time at the train station waiting for the trains. To this end, this paper proposes to the smarten Sri Lankan the train system by predicting the time a train reaches to its upcoming stations and sending the notifications to the subscribers about the arrival time to their stations. Subscribers then can reach their station whenever the train is reaching to the station or they can use any other means of transportation if the train is late.