DEVELOPMENT OF INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM: TRAVEL COST CALCULATOR

In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) is a system that provides convenience for driver and
passengers in a vehicle. The system has various applications that fulfill one need. In order to
enrich the system, an application named Travel Cost Calculator (ICC) has been developed.
ICC is an application that calculates the mileage between two locations, fuel cost estimation
and toll fare that user has to pay. This application is built on Intel e-Menlow platform that is
based on Intel Atom processor. ICC is implemented by using the Google Maps Application
Programming Interface (API), Adobe Flash Builder, Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) and
MySQL database. In order to achieve the total up cost of a journey, the programming has to
be done part by part. The driving direction approach is used to obtain the mileage between
two locations. For the fuel cost estimation, the vehicle's mileage per gallon (MPG) needs to
be known. It can be chosen from the car engine size (cc) options. Last but not least, the total
toll fare could be achieved by using the automatic detection of toll station approach Findings
from these three parts will give the estimation of the total travel cost.