COVID-19 TravelCover: Post-Lockdown Smart Transportation Management System

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, 2019 , has created a global health crisis that has had a deep impact on the way we perceive our world and our everyday lives. COVID-19 is highly contagious and mortality also very high, this makes the disease all the more dangerous [5,14,21]. One of the major prevention is to maintain social distancing, which would smash the chain of the expansion of the disease. Lockdown has been implemented to implement this idea but we can't keep lockdown in a country for a very long time, otherwise the country's economy will drastically decline. Post lockdown many things will change around us. And after the daily routine resumes post lockdown, the public transportation system will play a crucial role, as it is most commonly used by people, and to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 cases, social distancing needs to be maintained at all the public places [12,22]. So there has to be proper management for public transportation which can allow its use, without further producing more COVID-19 cases.To solve this problem we have been implementing a solution, by building an intelligent application to schedule the timings of various transports, avoiding the over occupancy of buses/railway stations, etc. [16].This work describes a unique approach to solve the issue of maintaining social distance while traveling due to the COVID-19 outbreak and also to make public transportation function like it used to function early. Our application will also check H. M. Rai ( )