Experiments Using Database Management System to Develop and Implement an Automated Motor Vehicle Management System

The automated motor vehicle management system is a system developed for managing the
movement of vehicles in and out of an organization. Presently, movements of vehicles in most
organizations are handled manually by the security officials that are stationed at the gates. This
system is associated with mismanaged data, inaccurate data or no data at all in some instances.
Consequently, it is imperative to develop a computerized system to manage data taken from the large
number of vehicles that move in and out of organizations in order to deal with cases of theft, proper
monitoring of people and vehicles and to provide reliable information for decision making. This study
was aimed at the implementation of a motor vehicle movement management system and was a useful
starting point in managing records at the Joseph Ayo Babalola University main gate.
The proposed system is a window based desktop application designed with Microsoft Access as the
database management system under a visual studio environment, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. It was
tested with data collected over a period of two months and it was able to improve the efficiency,
security and professional look of the organization.