IMPROVED 2-LEVEL DATA SECURITY APPROACH FOR UBER TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (UTMS)

Abstract

Transport Management Systems are application softwares designed to optimize and manage various transport operations, including inbound and outbound transport operations. Transport Management System has a wide range of features and functions, these include booking rides, GPS vehicle trackers used to track the locations of vehicles and their drivers, calculating transportation costs, optimizing travel routes and vehicle loads, freight audits, creating and optimizing shipping plans. Uber is a Transport Management Systems application that connects drivers with riders. Uber's rising travel demand has led to several transportation safety issues and currently, users of Uber Transport Management Systems (UTMS) are more concerned with data secrecy than convenience of transportation services. This research aims to improve on a 2-level data security approach to secure confidential information during communication between two or more clients and data in a database of an Uber Transport Management System. The research adopted DNA cryptography method to store, process and transmit information in a mangled form using Shift Cipher and DNA One Time Pad encryption techniques. To implement the 2 level data security approach, Shift Cipher technique was used as the first security level and DNA One Time Pad (OTP) encryption technique for the second security level. DNA OTP and Shift Cipher encryption approaches were used to secure and unveil the meaning of information processed via Transport System Security module for all operations (Encryption and Decryption). The research findings revealed that Transport System Security module has better processing speed for both encryption and decryption operation with an improve 2 level data security. The experimental result shows that information below 200 characters can be encrypted in 0.02 millisecond while information having less 300 characters can be decrypted in 0.02 millisecond.