DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CAR RENTAL SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CAR RENTAL SYSTEM

Abstract

Car Rental System (CRS) is a web based system for a company that rents out cars. Car Rental System enables the company to make their services available to the public through the internet and also keep records about their services. The research aims to build an online car rental system. The researcher used five stages development life cycle including planning, analysis, design, implementation and use, which utilized programming language of PHP 5.0 and version 5.1.30 MYSQL database.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Car Rental System is a web based system for a company that rents out cars. This system enables the company to make their services available to the public through the internet and also keep records about their services.

 The world has become a place where there is a lot of technological development; where every single thing done physically has been transformed into computerized form. Nowadays, people’s activities have been transformed into work done by computerized systems. One of which is the main target of this project which is about Car Rental System. The system of renting cars exist back in the previous years, were people rent cars for their personal reasons. Car renting is essential to many peoples’ plan to travel or move from one place to another for business purposes, tour, and visit or holidays, for these reasons Car renting is very helpful.

The [8] starting point of Car renting is really unknown as said by Thomas Pretty; he also mentioned that many beliefs that Joe Saunders was the first man to start a Car renting company. According to Thomas Pretty, charges were calculated with the help of mileage tracking device. Many people became interested in the Car rental business and hence got involved. Car renting became more popular as years pass by. Today Car renting services is found all over the world, especially in the developed and developing countries. To make this service more popular and accessible to the public it has been transform into a web base system and connected to the internet were everyone can be able to have access to it.

The information system designed to more closely manager’s needs and the system set up as major computer application area. The Management Information System (MIS) as a computer-based system makes information available to users with similar needs. Manager used the output information. The earlier studies shown that MIS could used to manage car rental, expected to accelerate as well as archiving services to customers better and safer, making it easier when required at any time. The online implementation of management information system provided and supported the customers for reservations, assist management in knowing rental car inventory at a specified time, to process transactions between branches car rental, transportation transaction processing, which supports satisfactory service to customers and support the company’s operational processes. Web-based car rental information system increases the customers, and help promotion ( Bayu, 2011).

A car rental or car hire agency is a company that rents automobiles for short period of time for a fee whether in a few hours or a few days or week. It is an elaborate form of a rental shop, often organized with numerous local branches (which allow a user to return a vehicle to a different location), and primarily ‘located near airports or busy city areas and often complemented by a website allowing online reservations.

Car rental agencies primarily serve people who have a car that is temporarily out of reach or out of service, for example travelers who are out of town or owners of damaged or destroyed vehicles who are awaiting repair or insurance compensation.

Because of the variety of sizes of their vehicles, car rental agencies may also serve the self-moving industry needs, by renting vans or trucks, and in certain markets other types of vehicles such as motorcycles or scooters may also be offered (Mohd, 2012).

Car rental companies operate by purchasing or leasing a number of fleet vehicles and renting them to their customers for a fee. Rental fleets can be structured in several ways – they can be owned outright (these are known as ‘risk vehicles’ because the car rental operator is taking a risk on how much the vehicle will be sold for when it is removed from service), they can be leased, or they can be owned under a guaranteed buy-back program arranged directly through a manufacturer or manufacturer’s financial arm (Walter, 2012).

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

In an organization running a car rental service, the Process on searching the client details is slow if the company is using manual system and there are thousands of clients. Besides that, staffs have to record the booking manually and it is difficult to produce a monthly report or an annual report. Manual system does not allow client to booking online and hard to keep track on the record of rental cars.

1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The aim and objectives of this study is to design and implement of a car rental system for Airports that will;

1. Develop a simple and secure system that protects client’s information and confidential information of the organization.
2. Design a user friendly system that enables client check for availability of vehicle and book or reserve a vehicle online.
3. Design a system that enables clients pay their car rent online.
4. Develop a system that stores bookings and reservation information as well as payment history to help the organization keep track of transactions.

TOPIC: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CAR RENTAL SYSTEM

Chapters: 1 - 5
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Number of Pages: 97

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