Abstract:
IGIM Disanayake developed a windows based Depot Management Information
System for Matara Bus Depot. The objective of this project is to develop an windows
based Depot Management Information System among the SLTB bus depot in Sri
Lanka.
The Matara bus depot was the nationalized enterprise which handled all public bus
transport in Sri Lanka since 1958. Number of employees work in Matara bus depot
such as Drivers, Conductors, Administration staff and other workers. Other workers
mean cleaners, maintain workers and security people. Matara bus depot comprises 80
buses & 240 employees. These 240 employees are divided in to 4 sectors (Drivers,
Conductors, Administration staff and other workers). Matara bus depot has manual
payroll system and they pay salary beginning of the months. As well as they prepare
daily income of all buses in the depot. Daily income of all buses is different day by
day.
SLTB originally painted its buses red and blue, and the second-hand London
Transport which was the backbone of the modern fleet just needed to be half-painted
in blue, saving on costs. When Aluminum bus bodies became the norm, large areas of
the surface were left unpainted, with just red front and back and blue strips down the
side, in order to save money.
The aim is to develop the Depot Management Information System for bus depot in
Matara. The main objective of developing the Depot Management information
System is to have a quality and feasible information system which is to improve the
current system that bus depot is using.
