E-Taxi Project Plan: BIT242 IT Project Management, University Project

This document presents a comprehensive IT project management plan for the development of an E-Taxi application. The project, initiated to address the scarcity of taxis during peak hours, proposes a carpooling system to facilitate real-time ride requests. The plan includes a detailed project brief, outlining the problem statement, project summary, and work breakdown structure (WBS). The WBS comprehensively breaks down the project into distinct phases, including initiation, information gathering, project planning, content development, database design, error testing, software development, backend system development, database and connection development, mobile app development, user training, and project sign-off. The project aims to develop a mobile application with GPS tracking for efficient taxi services. The document also includes a bibliography of relevant research papers. The project involves a series of stages, from initial project brief and scope statement to a complete project management plan and presentation, demonstrating the student's ability to apply project management principles and tools.

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IT Project Management
Name of Student
Name of University
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Stage 1: Project Brief-E-Taxi Project
1. Project Name
The chosen project aims in development of a mobile application through which people
can book Taxi. The name of the project is “E-Taxi Project”.
2. Project Sponsor
Please insert the name of your Teacher
3. Project Manager
Please insert your name and name of your team member
4. Problem Statement/Opportunity
Taxi is considered to be an important transportation mode yet there are very little
availability of taxis in peak hours. The undertaken project aims in development of an application
that can help in overcoming this problem, and will increase the number of taxis. The application
is basically a car pooling system that is capable of accepting the real time ride requests of the
passengers, considering the time of the service opted, the capacity of the car and the monetary
constraints.
5. Project Summary
The E-Taxi application involves development of a vehicle tracking system that will be
using GPS for vast amount of resource coordination. It is observed that finding a taxi in peak
hours can be quite difficult and therefore, the project proposes a carpooling system that will
operate as per the real time requests of the customers. Once a customer asks for a service and the

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service is confirmed, the passenger can track the taxi driver using GPS. The location of the
drivers will be relayed to the control room for taking necessary actions. This would be an easier
and an hassle free alternative to the existing taxis.
6. WBS
The work breakdown structure of the project is indicated in the table below-
WBS Task Name
0 E-Taxi Project
1 Initiation/Market Research
1.1 Understanding the Requirements
1.2 Analysis of the Market Demand
1.2.1 Analysis of the need of this application
1.2.2 Collection of Feedbacks
1.3 Documentation
1.4 M1: End of Market Research
2 Information Gathering
2.1 Analysing the project Requirements
2.2 Analysis of the current Process

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2.3 Documentation
2.4 M2: Completion of information collection
3 Project Planning
3.1 Finalizing the requirements to be included in the Plan
3.2 Development of a Project Plan
3.3 M3: Approval of the Project Plan
4 Content Development
4.1 Finalizing the Content
4.2 Building the software Content
4.3 M4: End of content Development Phase
5 Database Design
5.1 Input the information into the database
5.2 Organize the information
5.3 M5: Completion of Database Design
6 Error Testing
6.1 Testing the Modules developed so far

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6.1.1 Unit Testing
6.1.2 system testing
6.1.3 Performance testing
6.2 Rectification of the Errors
7 Development of the Software
7.1 Designing user Interface
7.2 Coding
7.2.1 Coding the front end
7.2.2 Rectification in the designing errors
7.3 Testing the modules
7.4 M6: End of Testing Phase
8 Backend System Development
8.1 Coding
8.2 Testing
9 Development of Database and Connection
9.1 Final database development

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9.2 Linking database with the software
10 Mobile App Development
10.1 Testing of the software to identify any bugs
10.2 Pilot Run
10.3 Bug Fixing
11 User Training
11.1 Preparation of Training modules
11.2 Training and procedure documents
12 Project Sign Off
12.1 Documentation
12.2 Development of Project Closure report
12.3 Payment Completion
12.4 M7: End of Project
7. Sign Off
The project will be approved by the Project Sponsor on delivery of the final project plan.

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Bibliography
Friginal, J., Gambs, S., Guiochet, J. and Killijian, M.O., 2014. Towards privacy-driven design of
a dynamic carpooling system. Pervasive and mobile computing, 14, pp.71-82.
Hasan, R., Bhatti, A.H., Hayat, M.S., Gebreyohannes, H.M., Ali, S.I. and Syed, A.J., 2016,
March. Smart peer car pooling system. In 2016 3rd MEC International Conference on Big Data
and Smart City (ICBDSC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Zhang, D., He, T., Liu, Y., Lin, S. and Stankovic, J.A., 2014. A carpooling recommendation
system for taxicab services. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2(3), pp.254-
266.