Transcript GIS Initiative in Indian Railways

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
– 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
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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PRS (Passenger Reservation System), UTS (Unreserved Ticketing
Ticketing and System), NTES (National Train Enquiry System), RBS (Rates
Passenger
Branch System), IR-Portal , Kolkata Metro Ticketing System,
Services
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)
ICMS-CMM (Coaching Maintenance System), LMS (Locomotive
Asset
Mgt System), WISE (Workshop Management System), FOIS –
management FMM, ERP-ICF (ERP system for ICF), TMS (Track Mgt System),
Wayside detection systems, Automatic Wagon Tracking,
EPS (E-procurement system), MMIS (Material Management
Resource
System, HRMS (Human Resources Management
Management Information
System), HMIS (Health Management Information System)
(Enterprise Management System), PRS-DR (Disaster
Infrastructure EMS
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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Thank you
S S Mathur
GM (CC)
Centre for Railway Information Systems
[email protected]