Intelligent Control and Automation, 2011, 2, 413-417
doi:10.4236/ica.2011.24047 Published Online November 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ica)
The Design and Construction of an Intelligent Taxi
Electronic Payment System Solution
Mozhgan Sadeghian1, Soheila Dadjou1, Majid Meghdadi1, Leila Safari1, Somayyeh Sadeghian2
1Computer Department, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
2University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
{meghdad, l_safari}@znu.ac.ir,
Received July 21, 201 1; revised August 12, 2011; accepted September 10, 2011
Abstract
Today the usage of electronic services in d ifferent taxie s s e e ms to be necessary. Organizing a system to pay the
taxi electronically with the card by the passenger can decrease the need to carry cash. Designing and building
of such a system by using a special taximeter with new fe atures and also one or more card reader can be fixed
into the taxi. Pay ment is with the smart credit card and from the client’s account. The in formation of presented
services is stored in the system and will be recorded as offered services. The driver can have access to taxi or-
ganization or some special terminals electronically to see his account and also he can receive a receipt.
Keywords: Electronic Smart Card, Automation of Payment, Intelligent System
1. Introduction
Today according to the increasing population there are
lots of problems in money payment to the taxi in cash.
For example there is not enough access to cash and the
other problem is damages to bill and as a result huge
amount of budget to replace damaged and old bills.
In addition paying money and waiting for receiving the
rest from the driver wastes time of the both passenger and
the drive and of course enhances the traffic. These in-
crease the fuel consumption and there is no effective con-
trol on the prices. So a new kind of technology is needed
to manage all these disorders and problems. For this rea-
son human was in the sake of a solution, at first they used
electronic payment system for bus transporter system.
Now it is time for taxi driving system. At this time more
facilities are more likely to be served to p asseng ers. In th e
second part of this paper we will have a review on the
same projects. Then in the section three the methods and
technologies used in the system will be discussed, in the
section four the structure of hardware is presented. In the
section five the facilities and privileges and at the end
results and some suggest i ons are mentioned.
Since that paper [1] was published, there have been
few technological changes, but progress has been made
in consolidation an d integration within the industry. This
paper will briefly look at the current status of electronic
payment systems, and progress in the last two years to
widen the appeal and use of such systems [2].
Related Works
The statistics related to electronic business and electronic
payment all around the world and the rate of its devel-
opment is the importance of their ro le which they play in
modern economy [3]. In Iran, some activities have been
done in the field of electronics especially in electronic
payment. A similar project which is present in Iran is
electronic payment system in bus and train transporter
system by using credit cards. Also in New York City an
intelligent taxi payment in order to pay the portage elec-
tronically is used. The new GPS enabled New York City
taxis includes a discussion of paying with credit cards or
debit cards rather than cash. There are also some brief
screen shots of the passenger interface. As with all elec-
tronic payment schemes, generational differences in
payment preferences come into play: the older couple
featured notes that “We’ll pay the taxi with cash only
because we always have” [4,5].
2. Method and Technology Used in the
System
In this part of the article, the various kinds of smart cards
are briefly introduced and then RFID technology and

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Mifare cards which are used in this project are men-
tioned.
2.1. Objective of the System
This project is about designing of an intelligent taxi
payment system solution. Project’s primary objective is
to enhance the automation of payment in taxi and thus
reach the some aims like not to wasting the time. In order
to achieve this, we have set-up a small electronic pay-
ment system which facilitates the payment system. In the
continuing section, system objects and their relations are
described.
2.2. Smart Cards
A smart card, magnetic card or integrated circuit card, is
a pocket card that ICs are put in it and are able to process
data, it shows that the card can receive input data proc-
essed in the IC card and send it as output. Some kinds of
intelligent cards are: contact smart card, contact less
smart card, planar and coded.
Contact smart cards have contact region .When the
card is put in the reader system the part contacts with
electrical joiner which can read the information from the
chip and then write.
In the smart cards the chip and card reader are related
by the usage of RFID induction technology without any
contact. These cards need almost one interference an-
tenna to do their interactions. They are used usually
when interactions should be processed quickly or with no
hand meddle. So in order to design this model, Mifare
S50 is used. Planar cards make it possible to relate with
or without contact in a card with the sharing storage and
process. Most of progressed smart cards are equipped
with a coded expert hard ware that makes it possible to
use RSA and DSA Algorithm in the circuit. Today coded
smart cards create a pair of key in the circuit in order to
prevent more than one copy key. These smart cards are
mostly used for digital signature and security identifica-
tion [6] (see Figure 1 ).
2.3. RFID Technology
RFID system has a kind of usage like magnetic strip in-
stalled on credit cards. RFID makes a unique identifica-
tion for each thing to make it distinguishable from others
and the same as information reading possibility on mag-
netic strip, RFID can be red and in this way it can correct
received data (Figure 2).
RFID tag contains the chip part and antenna. Function
is like this, at first antenna propagates some radio waves
Figure 1. A Sample of smart card.
Figure 2. A Sample of RFID technology applications.
in an almost small area. These radio waves which play
two roles, are a tool to relate to the RFID tag, and pro-
vide needed energy for this communication. When a tag
is placed in the produced magnetic field around card
reader, stimulator signals of antenna have impact on it
and some how they turn the RFID chip on and this chip
gives the processed data to the antenna. Data read by the
card reader will be sent to the local server and this data
will be processed and used in the systems of an organiza-
tion for different purposes [7].
2.4. S50 Mifare Cards Specifications
Used S50 Mifare card are below specification for mod-
eling (Figure 3).
 Data transfer: wireless;
 Function region: more than 100 millimeters;

Frequency: 56/13 megahertz;

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Figure 3. Structure of a sample Mifare card.
 Data transfer rate:106 kilobit per second;
 Has EEPROM with 1 kilo byte capacity;
 Saved data on the card with 10 years expiry;
 Rewrite possibility for 100,000 times;
 3-steps admission possibility;
 Has two keys to support multi purpose usages;
 Has one serial number [8,9].
3. Designed System Operation
The main scenario of the designed system is as below:
The passenger enters the taxi poses his credit card in
front of the card reader system available in the taxi ,when
credibility of the card is confirmed, card serial number is
registered and passenger sits in the taxi and taxi starts
moving and by posing the card in front of the system the
data is shown. It is necessary to mention that if during
driving the possible distance for the passenger, becomes
equal to the passed distance from the time passenger got
in the taxi, the system alarms “credibility finished”.
When the passenger gets to the target, again poses his
card in front of the system, then passed kilometer is
shown and the cost is calculated and deducted from the
account. This amount is saved and reported to the central
server by the driver, so the driver can receive his money.
In this way each driver can send his taxi card reader data
to the center at most once a week (sending with card
reader itself) and when the center receives the data it
sends a response to express reception, and by receiving
payments data ,center settles equal amount of money to
the drivers account (See Figures 4 and 5).
According to the subjects mention till now, it is time
Figure 4. Designed system hardware structure.

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Figure 5. Designed system scheme .
to talk about possibilities of this system:
 To display the money supply and other data for the
user;
 To charge the taxi card;
 To count the number of passengers and accept them
up to the taxi capacity;
 To calculate the taxi portage by the use of the number
of passed kilometers;
 To deduct amount of portage from credibility of the
card and store this data in the system for driver to re-
ceive his salary later;
 To show error message when the money supply of the
card finishes while passenger has not reached the tar-
get yet;
 To calculate the cost related to waiting times in the
traffic jam;
 To calculate and deduct more portage amount when it
is night or early in the morning;
 To display date and time on the main screen;
 Driver can send a message by the use of system and
receive his salary electronically (it will be settled to
his account).
4. System Hardware Structure
The main parts of system hardware structure are: read
and write module, connection with center module, key-
board, monitor and a microcontroller (See Figure 6) [10].
When the card is placed in front of read and write mod-
ule, the connection between these two and through this
module data in the card will be transferred to the micro-
controller [11]. This data is shown on the monitor screen
and is saved in the microcontroller EEROM. Another
part of hard ware is for the communication between
kilometer counter and microcontroller, so that the num-
ber of passed kilometers is sent to micro and according
Figure 6. Designe system scheme. d

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to the fact that the price of each kilometer is known in
the micro, necessary calculations are done and th e cost is
saved in the EEROM. Next part of hard ware is related to
the connection between module with the center and mi-
cro, so that the needed data is sent to the main server
from the micro memory. It is necessary to mention that
all the steps are simulated in the Proteos environment
and are programmed in the CodeVision and micro mem-
ory is programmed there too.
5. Conclusions
This project that took one year to be done led to design a
system to pay taxi portage electronically and helped to
solve many problems related to portage payment and
traffic. In general this system has some prominences
such as: not to wasting th e time, convenience in use, put-
ting order in the money received from passengers, con-
trolling over the number of passengers considering taxi
capacity and creating possibility of bank facilities to
drivers.
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