Simulation of Swiss Railways Ticket System

Part I

The task is to write an application that simulates the operation of an information system for a passenger rail company. The subject area and technical requirements are described in more detail below.

Subject Area

There are the following types of entities:

Station

• Name
• Timetable
  • Train number
  • Departure or arrival time

Train 🚆

• Number
• Route stations
• Amount of seats

Passenger 👨

• First Name
• Last Name
• Birth Date

Ticket 🎫

• Train number
• Fist and last names of the passenger

The Aplication must provide the following functionalities:

• For passengers 👫

  • search for trains running from station A to station B at a given time interval;
  • train timetables by station;
  • purchasing a ticket if
  • there are empty seats
  • a passenger with the same first name, surname and date of birth is not yet registered on the selected train
  • at least 10 minutes before train departure

• For staff 👷

  • adding new stations, trains
  • view all passengers registered on the train
  • View all trains;

Technical Requirements ⚠️

• The final requirement is for a multi-user, client-server application with network connectivity.
• All data is stored on the server side.
• Each client can upload some data, after each change operation the data should be synchronized with the server.
• The client must have a graphical interface.
• The application must handle hardware and software errors.

Technologies 🚧

• IDE - Any (Eclipse, IDEA)
• Tomcat
• DB – MySQL
• Maven
• JPA
• Spring Framework (except Boot, Data)
• JSP