gis initiative in indian railways
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GIS Initiative in Indian Railways. S. S. Mathur General Manager (Corporate Coordination) Centre for Railway Information Systems. Need for a GIS system. Indian Railways is a geographically distributed organization Assets are spread across the country Assets are of three types - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
GIS Initiative in Indian Railways
S. S. MathurGeneral Manager (Corporate
Coordination) Centre for Railway Information Systems
Need for a GIS system
• Indian Railways is a geographically distributed organization
• Assets are spread across the country• Assets are of three types
– Fixed assets, distributed: railway track, overhead electrified lines
– Fixed assets, location-specific: stations, yards– Moving assets: locomotives, coaches, wagons,
track machines
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Need for GIS (cont’d)• GIS makes it easy to
visualize different inputs and outputs from applications
• It simplifies the management of geographically distributed assets
• IR’s Long Range Decision Support System (LRDSS) uses it
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Base map
• To be developed using Survey of India topographic sheets, enhanced and updated
• To contain commonly mapped features such as land use, rivers, built up areas, roads, bridges, railway lines, police stations, etc.
• Would interface with different applications to utilize the map interface
• To facilitate input as well as depict output from different applicatinos
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First phase
• Develop a layer showing all land owned by Indian Railways– Enhance and update base map through satellite
imagery wherever required– Digitize existing Railway land records– Provide a layer for Railway-owned land
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Subsequent layers
• Fixed infrastructure– Track, Bridges – Cuttings and embankments, tunnels– Overhead Electrical equipment– Buildings -- stations, control offices, etc.– Yards
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Subsequent phases
• Location of maintenance facilities• Movement of trains• Level crossings• Hospitals and medical facilities• Accident relief medical equipment• Accident relief trains• Civil administration – police stations, district administration, disaster management authority
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Interfacing GIS with applications
• Asset management systems for asset location• Train operations management systems for
train running position• Planning systems to visualize system
bottlenecks• Project management systems to visualize
project progress
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Ticketing and Passenger Services
PRS (Passenger Reservation System), UTS (Unreserved Ticketing System), NTES (National Train Enquiry System), RBS (Rates Branch System), IR-Portal , Kolkata Metro Ticketing System, Webclaims (Claims and refunds),
Operations
FOIS (Freight Operations Information System), ICMS (Integrated Coaching Mgt System), COA (Control Office Automation System), CMS (Crew Mgt System), IREPG (E-payment Gateway), Satsang (Software aided Train Scheduling), FOIS – DW (FOIS Data Warehouse), RFMS (Referential File Management System)
Asset management
ICMS-CMM (Coaching Maintenance System), LMS (Locomotive Mgt System), WISE (Workshop Management System), FOIS – FMM, ERP-ICF (ERP system for ICF), TMS (Track Mgt System), Wayside detection systems, Automatic Wagon Tracking,
Resource Management
EPS (E-procurement system), MMIS (Material Management Information System, HRMS (Human Resources Management System), HMIS (Health Management Information System)
Infrastructure EMS (Enterprise Management System), PRS-DR (Disaster Management System for PRS), DR Datacentre for IR
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Indian Railways Information Architecture
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Challenges
• Base map?– IR’s area coverage is very high– Survey of India maps would need to be updated
• Scale / resolution versus cost?• Collection of data?
– A mammoth task
• Expertise to manage GIS system?– Dedicated team to be established
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Approach followed
• Focus area mapping– Satellite data– Ground surveys
• Cross functional team from concerned departments– Identification of features– Identification of attributes– Source of data– Building up the database
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Architecture
• Central database• Exposing map on the Internet / intranet• Using web services to provide interfaces with
the different applications• System for updation of data and configuration
control of the database• Access control
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