Tracking and monitoring system for railway transportation in Khartoum city

Abstract

Transportation is a large and important part of the economy of a country; train is one of the main transportation systems of Sudan. Therefore, we should have a good and strong monitoring system that can locate a train at every instant. This thesis has proposed the implementation of a Radio Frequency system (RFID) based train monitoring system that could locate a train at every instant. Here a RFID module transmits the location information to the main station. Every track in the system will be assigned a unique number. Now this track position of the train is also transmitted with this location information via wireless XBee on the station. This main station continuously updates the track position when the train is moving from one station to another. This information is stored in the main station unit about trains arrival and departure information. When a train arrives particular station information will send to other stations. And pair of switches will be placed at a distance of crossing. So, when the train comes, the switch send signal to microcontroller in the gate unit the dc motor will close gate and traffic light will be red, and when the train passes above the another switch in left side , the gate will between open automatically This implementation can effectively reduce train accidents in Khartoum city.