The Research On A Railway Ticket Reservation Model Based On Short Message Service Platform

At present, train has become one main vehicle for passengers. It is hard for passengers to buy train ticket when there are a lot of railway passengers. Nowadays, the train ticket main selling methods are as follows: train station window selling, agent selling and telephone reservation.In order to reduce the pressure of ticket selling of the railway department and to provide railway passengers more ticket reservation methods, by analyzing examples of railway ticket reservation first appearing in China in 2005 second half year and reading papers about short message service platform, a railway ticket reservation model based on short message service platform is designed, which has three key modules: SP communication module, SP service processing module and ticket reservation information exchanging module.The SP communication module needs to be connected with the internet short message gateway of the communication corporation, to realize the receiving of MO short message and the sending of MT short message at the SP part. A network program based on China Mobile CMPP protocol is programmed using C++ Builder to achieve the communication function with China Mobile phone user. The main function of SP service processing module is to analyze the content of user' s short message, to query the database ,to produce the answering message and write it to the database. The function of SP service processing module is realized by using the database stored procedure and database trigger technology. The single step interactive ticket reservation service,combined interactive ticket reservation service and information query service are designed and realized.The processing methods about regular short message and fuzzy short message are researched and realized. The ticket reservation information exchanging module needs to connect with the ticket system of the railway department and needs the interface protocol of the ticket system, the preparation of ticket reservation data is accomplished.In the last, under the simulated short message gateway, SP communication experiment and SP service processing experiment are demonstrated and the demo graph and experiment data are given, which verify that the development method is feasible.The application of short message ticket reservation can provide convince for the ticket buying of passengers, can reduce the pressure of ticket selling of the railway department and can be a good complement of window ticket selling and telephone ticket reservation, at the same time, it can bring economic benefits to the related departments.