RTIS – Real-time Train
Information System
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Project
executed by CRIS
– Centre for Railway Information System, an IT arm of Indian Railways in
collaboration with ISRO – Indian Space
Research Organisation.
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This requirement gained greater
significance after implementation of ICT based Control Office Application (COA) on
all divisions of Indian Railways. As COA is already integrated with National Train
Enquiry System (NTES), accurate real-time information for passengers
will get enabled automatically as a by-product.
·
Object:
Automatic acquisition of train movement data i.e., arrival, departure,
run through timings at Railway stations
·
As
part of the project, RTIS devices have been installed in Locomotives.
·
Indian Railways has 15000 Locos
( 5500 electric locomotives, 6500 diesel locomotives and 3000 EMU/ MEMU
/DMUs). As of now (till
November, 2019), 2700 devices are installed in Phase 1.
Advantages:
1.
Automatic capture of train running Information
& automatic plotting of Control Charts in COA.
2.
Stress free work conditions for train
controllers.
3.
Accurate train running information to passengers.
4.
Improving
the efficiency of train control.
5.
Richer MIS for management.
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