An Auction Based TATKAL Scheme For Indian Railway

Abstract

The Indian railways works on three trains local, passenger and express. Express trains require reservation of two types normal and TATKAL scheme, but these schemes works on the FCFS (First Come First Serve) basis. The project auction based TATKAL scheme uses bidding, admin decide the time then session will sta rts. The highest base price is decided depends on that passenger will bid the, each passenger having maximum five times bidding after session expires and the maximum bid times complete then passenger cant do bidding. This is useful to those passengers who having emergency and who can able to pay highest price for ticket. Depends on highest bid value tickets are allocated to the passenger. This paper security is provide d at the time user login OTP (One Time Password) is used .