GIS Initiative in Indian Railways S. S. Mathur General Manager (Corporate Coordination) Centre for Railway Information Systems.

GIS Initiative in Indian Railways

S. S. MathurGeneral 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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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?– 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 MathurGM (CC)

Centre for Railway Information [email protected]