GPS Validation for QR Railway Ticket using Android

With the advancement of technology, new software and devices are being developed to ease man’s work. Waiting for ticket in long queues is a time consuming process. Some people use the Automatic Teller Vendor Machine(ATVM)card i.e. smart card to buy ticket but it also has long queues for buying ticket .If people forget to take their card or they do not have balance in their card they will have to stand in queue. The operating system, Android, has led to great increase in use of mobile phones .Today almost all of the work can be carried out through phone. The Android application proposed in this paper eases the task of buying railway tickets. People can buy suburban tickets (local travel) using just a smartphone application. The main thing about the paper is the “GPS� validation of ticket because of which we get to know the position of the user .The details of the ticket will be stored in the form of a Quick Response(QR) code in the phone itself thereby avoiding loss of ticket. Saving the information in database ensures easy retrieval and security. Also the ticket checker is provided with a ticket checking application to validate ticket either by QR code or by searching ticket details in database.