ASSIGNMENT

Assignment: Car Rental System



Assignment: Car Rental System

CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE CAR RENTAL SYSTEM

1.1 Introduction

This project is designed so as to be used by Car Rental Company specializing in renting cars to customers. It is an online system through which customers can view available cars, register, view profile and book car.

1.2 Reason for the Project

The advancement in Information Technology and internet penetration has greatly enhanced various business processes and communication between companies (services provider) and their customers of which car rental industry is not left out. This E-Car Rental System is developed to provide the following services (Indonesia, 2009):

Enhance Business Processes: To be able to use internet technology to project the rental company to the global world instead of limiting their services to their local domain alone, thus increase their return on investment (ROI).

Online Vehicle Reservation: A tools through which customers can reserve available cars online prior to their expected pick-up date or time.

Customer's registration: A registration portal to hold customer's details, monitor their transaction and used same to offer better and improve services to them.

Group bookings: Allows the customer to book space for a group in the case of weddings or corporate meetings (Event management) (Jogiyanto, 2005).

1.3 Problem Statement

A car rental is a vehicle that can be used temporarily for a fee during a specified period. Getting a rental car helps people get around despite the fact they do not have access to their own personal vehicle or don't own a vehicle at all. The individual who needs a car must contact a rental car company and contract out for a vehicle. This system increases customer retention and simplify vehicle and staff management (Sari, 2011).

1.4 Aims & Objectives

To produce a web-based system that allow customer to register and reserve car online and for the company to effectively manage their car rental business.

To ease customer's task whenever they need to rent a car.

1.5 Scope

This project traverses a lot of areas ranging from business concept to computing field, and required to perform several researches to be able to achieve the project objectives. The area covers include (Yodiyanto, 2006):

Car rental industry: This includes study on how the car rental business is being done, process involved and opportunity that exist for improvement.

PHP Technology used for the development of the application.

General customers as well as the company's staff will be able to use the system effectively.

Web-platform means that the system will be available for access 24/7 except when there is a temporary server issue which is expected to be minimal.

CHAPTER-2: CAR RENTAL SERVICES

2.1 How Car Rental Services Work

A car rental is a vehicle that can be used temporarily for a period of time with a fee. Renting a car assists people to get around even when they do not have access to their own personal vehicle or don't own a vehicle at all. The individual who want to rent a car must first contact the car rental company for the desire vehicle. This can be done online. At this point, this person has to supply some information ...