MILIND AMKAR. NINAD MORE. RESHMA NAIR. ROOHI SALVI. NISHANT SHEWALE. CHANDRAPRAKSH SHREENATH WAMAN. PRIYANKA MAHAJAN.

ASHWINI KULKARNI. AKSHAY KHEDKAR. AMRUTANAND KALE.

OBJECTIVE TWO FOLDS OF ROLE OF IT ROLE 1: INFORMATION HIGHWAY ROLE 2: PRODUCTIVE TOOL

Roadmap for IT in Railways

Five year Stage period Period 1: 2005-10 Period 2: 2010-15 Period 3: 2015-20 Period 4: 2020-25 Integration A total revamp of IS built in the last twenty years. It will include forecasting, modeling etc. Global Acceptance Synergy Automation Description The automation of the existing functional areas of railways. Examples are PRS and FOIS. By 2010, process automation will be by and large complete. In synergy stage the separate systems put in place will begin to interchange information amongst them and this information interchange process will be automated by the end of this period. The databases across the organizational network will find increasing acceptance as authentic sources of information.

LEVELS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Level No: 1 Level Operation al Type of System Transaction processing system Description Examples

A TPS helps to streamline PRS and FOIS operating tasks and is primarily for use by frontline staff.

Knowledg e Level

Office Automation System

Knowledge Work System

Set of tools that enables knowledge workers to streamline their own work. Set of tools that enable skilled workers in specialized jobs to streamline their work.

MS Office Suite

Computer Aided Design(CAD)

Manageria Management Information System It collects information from the MIS reports in l base TPS system, collates it and PRS and FOIS presents it to the management. Decision Support System It provides assistance to managers in taking decisions. Highly summarized data which allows analysis. Assists top management in Long Range formulating long term policies Decision and plans. Support Systems(LRDS S)

Strategic

Executive Support System

CENTRE FOR RAILWAY INFORMATION SYSTEM ESTABLISHED IN 1986 BY THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS AT CHANKYAPURI, NEW DELHI. STARTED FUNCTIONING FROM 1987. LARGE ONLINE APPLICATION SUCH AS FOIS AND PRS OF INDIAN RAILWAY.

The following are the main projects that are handled by CRIS: Freight Operation Information System (FOIS) Passenger Reservation System (PRS)/ Alpha Migration (CONCERT) National Train Enquiry System (NTES) Booking of Tickets on Internet Integrated Coaching Management System (ICMS) Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) Office Automation & E-Working Group (OEAW)

Freight Operations Information System

An on line real time system for management and control of freight traffic

FOIS
User driven design and implementation

Foundations for a total logistics system

DESIGN &DEVELOPMENT OF MIS DATAWARE HOUSE & DATA MINING CAPABILITIES WEB ENABLED REPORTS

PRS networking of entire Indian Railways completed in April, 1999. PRS is running currently at 1,200 locations, Deploying 4,000 terminals, covering journeys of 3,000 trains and executing ONE MILLION passenger transactions per day. Internet booking of tickets was started In August 2002. TATKAL has been converted from a separate coach to a normal Quota and enabled for all trains in 2004 Internet booking timings extended to 4:00 a.m. 11:30 p.m. from March 2005

This project involves the integration of five major regional reservation centers. It therefore enables better coordination to improve the reservation process. The major regional centers with all the information for their regions coordinate for better planning and control. This is a complex but comprehensive system which provides for better functioning of the reservation process. IT enables this scale of coordination and such systems rely heavily on a strong IT backbone. Leased lines are predominantly used to connect this system. This system demonstrates high levels of performance. It takes less than one second for a local transaction and three seconds for a networked one. It is capable of providing reservations for 22 hours per day.

The large volumes of passenger traffic that the Indian Railways handles makes the PRS a quintessential part of the Railways IT infrastructure.

UNRESERVED TICKETING SYSTEM (UTS)

Following are the sub components under OAEW: E Working System (Electronic file Movement and Tracking) Comprehensive Payroll Processing System for DLW Varanasi Financial Accounting System (FAS) for CRIS Material Management Information Systems Railway Budget Compilation System (RBCS) Vigilance Software System (VSS)

The Large Geographical Dispersion of our country is the biggest challenge for Indian Railways. To get all of the country connected via railways is very challenging indeed. There are so many states and so many stations providing so many applications and platforms to work on. The diversification of these computing platforms is yet another challenge for Indian Railways, to connect the whole of country with railways and railways with IT is very challenging. Also the remote areas provide lot of problems in integrating and to take the technology to such remote areas is very difficult job. Yet another challenge standing besides Railways is 24*7 operations throughout the year. Even if one entry goes wrong the whole of network will suffer. Also the OLTP applications support public services is another challenge for the Indian railways.

CHALLENGES FACED BY RAILWAYS

INDIAN RAILWAY ENTERPRISE COMPUTING
SYSTEMS
INTEGRATION ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT CRM OPERATIONS MAINTENANCE BUSINESS SUPPORT SYSTEMS DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS DATA CAPTURE
TERMINALS,FIXED, HAND-HELD

APPLICATIONS
ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
Business Strategic Enterprise Intelligence and Management Data Warehousing Market Research FOIS Engineering Planning Human Resources Management PRS Crew Scheduling Rolling Stock Maintenance Procurement and Contract Management Managerial Accounting Call Centre Station Management Inventory Management Cash Flow Management INDIAN RAILWAY PORTAL

Financial Accounting

Regulatory Reporting

Customer Data Customer Service Base PARCEL Train Planning MANAGEMENT Infrastructure Maintenance Real Estate Management Asset Life Cycle Management Litigation Management

CONTROL OFFICE APPLICATIONS

PDAS

MOBILE PHONES

DATA LOGGERS SCADA SYSTEMS

TICKETING SOLUTION- MOBILE,INTERNET & SELF SERVICE INTELLIGENT BAR CODE SYSTEM INTEGRATED REVENUE ACCOUNT GPS