ABSTRACT
Nowadays people prefer to travel by airplane because it reduces the travel time. Passengers spend a lot of money as an airfare and in turn seek good infrastructure and hospitality at planes. However, increasing numbers of passengers and decreasing lavatories in planes are spoiling their comfort. This problem is more acute in long journeys. Not only the passengers who stand nearby lavatories for their turn feel embarrassed, but also the fellow passengers having seats close to lavatories feel inconvenience. Therefore to solve this issue, we propose an automatic lavatory queue management system which enables the passengers of a public transport system to make reservations for the use of the lavatory. The proposed solution has eliminated the long physical queues near the lavatory. Upon request by passengers, a virtual queue is maintained and updated with time. The system comprises a local area network, reservation module, central controller unit, and lavatory door module. The system does not offer services only on first cum first served basis, rather it takes the decision based on the sensitivity of the request. The proposed mechanism enhances the safety of the transport systems thereby providing a comfortable journey experience to the passengers. The proposed model is completely scalable and has the ability to be extended for more advanced functions which could be achieved by integrating and updating the software according to the type and size of the transport system.
