Smart Local Railway Ticketing System Using RFID

RFID technology has spread its application all over the world and is becoming a necessary in some area like corporate life and schools for regular attendance any many more. This paper explains the use of RFID technology in railway system. Traditional system has its disadvantages like forming large queues and daily rush due to this many people don’t bother to buy tickets, which results in huge loss to railway department. Ultimately RFID system can be a solution for this. RFID card can be used to uniquely identify the passenger and his/her daily travel. All his/her travel can be done by using these tiny cards so that there will no need to form queue every now and then. Passenger will carry this card every time during the journey. Meanwhile railway department will also get benefits from this, as one dedicated railway account is associated with this RFID card and a passenger has to recharge his/her account either online or offline.