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- 1. TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES IN INDIAN RAILWAYS (THE ROAD AHEAD) Paras Bhutani (14312303910) VarunDeep Singh (12612303910) Jagduman Singh (14812303910) Deepankar Khanda (13312303910)
- 2. IINNTTRROODDUUCCTTIIOONN • IndianRailways, abbreviated as IR, is the state-owned railway company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport. • It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways(Mamta Banerjee) of the Government of India. • It has more than 64,015 kilometers of track and 6,909 stations , making it the world's fourth largest railway network after those of the United States, Russia and China. • On 16 April 1853, the first passenger train service was inaugurated between Bori Bunder in Bombay and Thane. • As to rolling stock, IR owns over 200,000 (freight) wagons, 50,000 coaches and 8,000 locomotives. • The railways traverse the length and breadth of the country and carry over 20 million passengers and 2 million tons of freight daily.
- 3. IINNDDIIAANN RRAAIILLWWAAYYSS ––AA SSUUNNRRIISSEE IINNDDUUSSTTRRYY Railways in India, a sunrise industry! Indian Railways, a super ‘ Navaratna’. The Indian Railways (IR) is a truly great institution. It is a global giant that operates profitably, effectively and with relatively little government support. MCKINSEY & COMPANY
- 4. TTOODDAAYY’’SS BBUUSSIINNEESSSS CCHHAALLLLEENNGGEESS Increased operational efficiency • Improve productivity from existing systems • Streamline and optimize business procedures Responsiveness to constituents • Create end-to-end visibility into the business • Make the information accessible and actionable Adaptability to change • Re-act quickly to threats and opportunities • Turn IT into a competitive business asset
- 5. CCuurrrreenntt IIssssuueess Higher demand for Freight and Passenger transport, with planned economic growth Need for capacity enhancement in the Railway network over the next 10-15 years Technological uprgadation for better maintenance of railway assets Greater competition from Roadways, with major investments in Highway network upgradation Increase freight market share through higher availability of services at competitive prices Greater attention to passenger services and safety Heavily subsidised passenger fares, distorted passenger pricing Upgradation of the Railway Production units for improved efficiency and productivity
- 6. UUSSIINNGG IINNFFOORRMMAATTIIOONN TTEECCHHNNOOLLOOGGYYFFOORR GGRREEAATTEERR EEFFFFIICCIIEENNCCYY A large complex Infrastructure System such as the Indian Railways can benefit greatly from the intelligent use of IT Objectives • Freight revenue enhancement • Passenger revenue enhancement • Improved and optimized service
- 7. CRIS (Center ForRRaaiillwwaayy IInnffoorrmmaattiioonn SSyysstteemm))-- IINNTTEERRNNAALL SSEERRVVIICCEE PPRROOVVIIDDEERR FFOORR IITT OONN IIRR DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND PRODUCTS AND OTHER SYSTEMS TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO DEVELOP, SET UP, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN ANY COMPUTERISED SYSTEM AND THE UNDERLYING INFRASTRUCTURE
- 8. PASSENGER BBUUSSIINNEESSSS OOFFIINNDDIIAANN RRAAIILLWWAAYYSS PASSENGERS CARRIED (IN Indian railways have a share of nearly 22% MILLIONS) in the passenger transport market 5100 DURING 2003-04 4600 3600 • 5210 Million passengers were carried 2500 • Passenger kilometers was 530 billion 1300 1600 • Passenger earning was 13460 crores 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 50S 60S 70S 80S 90S 2000S PASSENGERS KILOMETERS (IN BILLIONS) 70 80 120 210 300 520 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 50S 60S 70S 80S 90S 2000S • Passenger business accounts for 31% of the revenue • Passenger business has two major segments • Premium passenger service • Mass Volume transportation segment
- 9. PREMIUM PPAASSSSEENNGGEERR SSEERRVVIICCEE OFFERED THROUGH MAIL/EXPRESS, SUPER FAST, RAJDHANI AND SHATABDI TRAINS ABOUT 1520 TRAINS ARE RUN DAILY. VARIETY OF SERVICES • AC FIRST CLASS • AC SLEEPER • FIRST CLASS • AC 3 TIER • AC CHAIR CAR • SLEEPER CLASS • ORDINARY CHAIR CAR JOURNEY THROUGH RESERVATION ONLY
- 10. IMPLEMENTATION OF ITin INDIAN RAILWAYS
- 11. PPAASSSSEENNGGEERR RREESSEERRVVAATTIIOONN SSYYSSTTEEMM PRS networking of entire Indian Railways completed in April, 1999. PRS is running currently at 1,200 locations, Deploying 4,000 terminals , covering journeys of 3,000 trains and executing ONE MILLION passenger transactions per day. Internet booking of tickets was started In August 2002. TATKAL has been converted from a separate coach to a normal Quota and enabled for all trains in 2004 Internet booking timings extended to 4:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. from March 2005.
- 12. CCOONNCCEERRTT ((CCoouunnttrryy WWiiddeeNNeettwwoorrkk ooff CCoommppuutteerriizzeedd EEnnhhaanncceedd RReesseerrvvaattiioonn aanndd TTiicckkeettiinngg )) • Integrates five Regional Reservation Centers • Judicious mix local autonomy with uniformity of business rules. • Very complex Business transactions. • Comprehensive functionality Delhi PRS Mum bai PRS Chenn ai PRS kolka ta PRS Secunde rabad PRS 64 KBPS (x2) Leased Line 1 64 KBPS Leased Line6 1 2MBPS Leased line 64 KBPS Leased Line 1 2MBPS Leased line 64 KBPS (X 2) Leased Line 64 KBPS Leased Line 2 MBPS (x2) Leased Line CRIS 1 64 KBPS Leased Line6 1 2MBPS Leased line
- 13. CCOONNCCEERRTT PPEERRFFOORRMMAANNCCEE •Less than 1 sec for local transaction • 3 sec for network transaction. • Capable for providing reservations for 22 hours per day. • Uptime of PRS is 99.5+%
- 14. CONCERT - COMPLEXITIES • 44 types of quotas • 8 types of trains • 9 types of classes • 162 types of concessions • 127 types of bogies
- 15. PPRRSS –– EEnnqquuiirryySSyysstteemmss Indian Railway’s web-site, www.indianrail.gov.in offers PRS enquiries on the internet Berth/Seat availability, Passenger Status, Fare, Train Schedule etc A maximum of 42 lacs hits per day have been recorded National Train Enquiry System (NTES) website, www.trainenquiry.com gives dynamic information about the running status of any train and its expected arrival/departure at any given station Mobile telephone based SMS enquiry service A new mobile phone based facility for rail users’ viz., Train Delay Alert Service Country wide extension of Universal Rail Enquiry number “139” through setting up of Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) based state-of-the-art Call Centres Request For Proposal (RFP) is being prepared.
- 16. PPRRSS –– WWOORRKKSSIINN PPRROOGGRREESSSS • Display of Coach-wise Berth/Seat Vacancy Status • Reduction in Waiting List Numbers by utilizing vacant journey-legs of berths • Scheme of Frequent Rail Travelers (SOFT) • Hand-held Terminals for TTEs Fund allocated for this work is inadequate • Web based Ticket auction • Disaster backed PRS sites for business continuity. • Migration to RDBMS Architecture.
- 17. MMAASSSS VVOOLLUUMMEE TTRRAANNSSPPOORRTTAATTIIOONN Consists of the following • Suburban traffic • Ordinary passenger service • Unreserved short distance travel This sector accounts for • 95% of the passenger carried • 66% of the PKM • 47% of the passenger revenue Passengers of this category travel on an average 71 kms for every journey Earning per pkm is 18 paise and per passenger is Rs 13
- 18. Unreserved Ticketing System(UTS) Printed card tickets have been in vogue since the beginning. Railways had also introduced electro-mechanical printing devices and also SPTM machines. But these methods had limitations Indian railways introduced UTS to improve customer satisfaction, revenue generation, accounting, and reporting capabilities and reduce fraud The work load involved in printing , accounting and issuing tickets to this mega segment has been a difficult task
- 19. Unreserved Ticketing System(UTS) UTS server clusters installed in three more Zonal Railways viz., East Central Railway at Patna, North Eastern Railway at Gorakhpur and Eastern Railway at Kolkata. . UTS has also been extended to all the remaining Zonal Railways by connecting certain selected stations of each zones to the existing server clusters of Northern and Eastern Railways. Five more UTS server clusters will be installed in South Eastern Railway, South Central Railway, Southern Railway, Central Railway and Western Railway during MAY – JUNE 2005 A pilot project was inaugurated in Delhi area in August 2002. Since then UTS has been extended to 51 important stations of Northern Railway.
- 20. Works in progressin UTS UTS is planned to be implemented at 500 more stations during this year Thin Client based UTS successfully implemented on East Central Railway in March 2005. It is planned to gradually extend thin client based UTS to other locations so that ticketing activity can continue even if the communication link or the server goes down for some time. Business Continuity for UTS under all circumstances the most important objective . inter-cluster UTS operation migration plannedto ensure continuous ticketing under all circumstances.
- 21. FFRREEIIGGHHTT TTRRAANNSSPPOORRTT BBUUSSIINNEESSSS Freight Transport accounts for nearly 70% of IR’s revenue. Railways meet approximately 45%of the national transportation. In the financial year 2003-04, the Railways have moved 557.39 million tonnes of originating revenue earning traffic, against the target of 550 million tonnes and 38.65 million tonnes higher than the previous year’s loading. .
- 22. Freight Operations Information System An on line real time system for management and control of freight traffic FOIS User driven design and implementatio n Foundations for a total logistics system
- 23. Rake Management System (RMS) • RMS captures the following events in real time • Customer indents • Wagon supply - date and time • Departure after loading • Running particulars - arrival/departure at stations enroute with attachments or detachments if any • Arrival at destination • Handling and delivery at destination
- 24. Terminal Management System (TMS) •TMS computerizes the following: •Calculation of freight and other charges •Generation of Railway Receipt(RR) •Billing and Accounts of freight earnings
- 25. PPaarrcceell MMaannaaggeemmeenntt SSyysstteemm Following Functions are covered • Parcel Booking, Cancellation and Loading • monitoring and tracking of Parcels • Demurrage and Wharfage Calculation • Printing of Parcel labels Networking of all parcel offices RFID tags for tracing parcels
- 26. INDIAN RAILWAYS ASSETSPROFILE Total Track Kilometers 109,221 Electrified Track kilometers 39,358 No Of Bridges 119,984 No Of Level Crossings 37,423 No Of Passenger Coaches 34,895 No Of Emu/Dmu coaches 4,957 Other Coaching Vehicles 4,904 Total Wagons On Line 214,760 No Of Diesel Locomotives 4,699 No Of Electric Locomotives 2930
- 27. MIS Project Overview • MIS Project started with three pilot railways viz. NR, SR & CR • The development of functional modules entrusted to railways are as under: • Civil-CR & NR, Elec. – CR & NR, Mech.-SR, • S&T-SR, Security-NR, Vigilance-WR • Objective to provide MIS for each department • Railway Board decision to transfer the existing contract management to CRIS from pilot railways to implement MIS applications on centralised Architecture awaited
- 28. HHeeaalltthh MMaannaaggeemmeenntt IInnffoorrmmaattiioonn SSyysstteemm ((HHIIMMSS)) A centralized solution for implementation of HMIS across all the hospitals and health units of IR A prototype for some of the basic modules of HMIS developed and given for testing to Vadodara division A proposal for development and deployment of HMIS as pilot project on western railway is submitted to railway board and approval awaited
- 29. OTHER PROJECTS RailBudget Compilation System (RBCS) . A web-enabled works programme management system is being developed and linked to same Comprehensive Accounting & Transaction System (CATS) for RDSO Comprehensive Pay Roll Processing System(CPPS) for DLW Railway Officers Information System (ROIS) Data Center for Zonal railways MIS for zonal railways