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

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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 (contd)

• GIS makes it easy to visualize different inputs
  and outputs from applications
• It simplifies the management of geographically
  distributed assets
• IRs 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

Sachin Budhisagar
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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?
• IRs 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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Thank you

• S S Mathur
• GM (CC)
• Centre for Railway Information Systems
• ssmathur_at_cris.org.in