Thursday, October 20, 2011

Real Time Train Information System (RTIS) based on ‘SIMRAN’ becomes Functional from 19TH October 2011

In a major passenger friendly move, Indian Railways has opened the first phase of the Real Train Information System (RTIS) to  public for accurate train tracking thus heralding a new era of application of advanced communication and information technologies in various Railway related activities.
 This new tracking system is based on Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation (SIMRAN) and has been developed jointly by the Ministry of Railways’ Research arm namely Research, Design and Standards Organization (RDSO), Lucknow  and noted engineering institute, IIT, Kanpur.
Union Minister of Railways, Shri Dinesh Trivedi inaugurated this facility during the Economic Editors’ Conference held here yesterday. 
The trains covered for this first phase are following 6-pair of trains:

  1.  
12301
Howrah - N Delhi Rajdhani
  1.  
12302
N Delhi - Howrah Rajdhani
  1.  
12305
Howrah - N Delhi Rajdhani
  1.  
12306
N Delhi - Howrah Rajdhani
  1.  
12313
Sealdah - N Delhi Rajdhani
  1.  
12314
N Delhi - Sealdah Rajdhani
  1.  
12951
Mumbai Central - N Delhi Rajdhani
  1.  
12952
N Delhi - Mumbai Central Rajdhani
  1.  
12953
Mumbai Central - Nizamuddin A K Rajdhani
  1.  
12954
Nizamuddin - Mumbai Central A K Rajdhani
     11.
12003
Lucknow - N Delhi Shatabdi
     12.
12004
N Delhi - Lucknow Shatabdi


          This facility will provide accurate train running information on a click of button or through SMS and will overcome limitations of the existing train information dissemination through 139 which is mainly dependent on manual collection and feeding.

RTIS system deployed in the trains mentioned above will provide the following information to public/passengers:

             (i)        Train locations.
 (ii)       Train running position (i.e. whether train is running on time or if   running late and by how much.  
 (iii)     Train location with respect to next stopping station in terms of  kms.

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