RFID system for public train transportation

  • Authors:
  • Chin-Ling Chen;Mei-Li Chong

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 41349, Taiwan, R. O. C.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chung-Hsing University, 250 Kuo-Kwang Road, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, R. O. C.

  • Venue:
  • Security and Communication Networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Nowadays, the problem of a shortage of energy is becoming more and more serious. This has resulted in the global governments' appeal to people to take public transportation systems as much as possible. But, the public transportation system has a lot of problems that cause people's interest in taking the public transportation system to get lower and lower. For example, many passengers use many kinds of management loopholes to avoid buying tickets. This action forces the companies involved in providing the public transportation system to strengthen manpower for inspecting tickets. Hence, the companies will shift cost to the customers forcing ticket prices higher and higher as well as passengers becoming more frustrated with the increase in inspecting tickets. In this paper, we take the Taiwan Railways Administration (it owns different ticket types and different train types in the same public transportation system) as our implement environment and we use Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) methods conforming to EPCglobal Class 1 Generation 2 (C1G2) standards to solve this train-jumping problem and reduce the manpower cost of the public transportation system companies. And most importantly, our scheme also enhances higher security. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.