1. Railway Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Transport Modelling Research And Software Development in India ………… Exploring Partnerships

2. Railways Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Transport Modeling Research And Software Development in India …. Exploring Partnerships 2 Objective To Define Way Forward on Collaboration between Indian Railways Academic Institutes Industry Players To Develop a Simulator for LRDSS as a Test case

3. Railways Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Transport Modeling Research And Software Development in India …. Exploring Partnerships 3 Key Challenges  Lack of Domain Expertise with Academic Inst and Industry  Articulation of the Problem  How to maximize expertise of each player with each having different Win  At what stage to bring in the industry

4. Railways Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Transport Modeling Research And Software Development in India …. Exploring Partnerships 4 Broad Role Definition  Indian Railways  Developing Rail Related Research & Modeling  Looking for a LRDSS Simulator Test Case  Academic Institutes – Seeking meaningful and real life research projects  Industry – Seeking to offer customer solution for profitable business

5. Railways Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Transport Modeling Research And Software Development in India …. Exploring Partnerships 5 First Stage: Railways – Academic Partnership  Nature of Partnership  PHD Research  Sponsored Project  Clearly Defined Deliverables and Milestones  Institute to have a full time Research scholar  Expected Outcome  An Algorithm which can meet functional requirements of the Railways  Can be handed over to the industry to package it for deployment

6. Railways Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Transport Modeling Research And Software Development in India …. Exploring Partnerships 6 Second Stage  Initiate Industry Partnership  Institute to partner with a suitable Industry Organisation  Define responsibility of Project Management  Define lead manager  Have a role for all three partners

7. Railways Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Transport Modeling Research And Software Development in India …. Exploring Partnerships 7 What Next  Engage with various participants post the workshop  Regroup after 2 Months with focus on LRDSS Simulator  Various participants can present on solution to the challenge  Solution to give option of contemporary technologies  Conduct one more workshop of similar nature in 4-6 months  Railway User Dept to be included

8. Railway Staff College, Vadodara April 2005 Thank You