1. GIS Initiative in Indian Railways
S. S. Mathur
General Manager (Corporate Coordination)
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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 (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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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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8. 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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10. 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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14. Thank you S S Mathur GM (CC) Centre for Railway Information Systems