India Railways, Asia’s largest network, has bagged IT Transformation Award 2006 of NASSCOM, the national platform of the Indian IT industry. Commenting on Indian Railways achievement, Kiran Karnik, President of NASSCOM said that the Indian Railways is “an extraordinary example of a turnaround story, and their plans of public private partnerships for IT (which include ERP, MIS, and optimisation and consolidation of multiple applications and Mission 2015 plan), makes this a challenging and exciting opportunity for IT companies.”
Indian Railways will invest $ 1.5 billion or Rs 6000 crore over the next five years to upgrade IT facilities in rail network. "We have the best operating ratio..Have invested Rs 1000 crore on IT in the 10th Five year Plan and plans to invest 1.5 billion dollar over the next five year years", Sudhir Kumar, OSD to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, said at the NASSCOM award giving ceremony on June 25.
In September, the Indian Railways would be inviting the best open competitive bids from the IT companies for several initiatives. These IT initiatives include giving hand-held computers to ticket examiners, building cyber cafes at stations, digitizing the signaling system and linking all online applications with the computerized reservation system and tracking the passenger and freight trains, he pointed out.
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
World Fastest Trains
The TGV train of France
The TGV is France's high-speed rail service developed by GEC- Alsthom (now Alstom) and SNCF, the French national rail operator, and operated primarily by SNCF. Following the inaugural TGV service between Paris and Lyon in 1981, the TGV network, centred on Paris, has expanded to connect cities across France and in adjacent countries. It holds the record for the fastest wheeled train, having reached 574.8 km/h (357 mph) on 3 April 2007, and also holds the world's highest average speed for a regular passenger service. TGV is a registered trademark of SNCF. TGV is an acronym for train grande vitesse, French for "high-speed train".
The Bullet Train of Japan
Bullet trains or Shinkansen is a network of high- speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies. Test run speeds of the train have been 443 km/h (275 mph) for conventional rail in 1996, and up to a world record of 581 km/h (361 mph) for maglev trainsets, in 2003. Bullet trains or Shinkansen is the world busiest high-speed rail and carries 375,000 passengers a day. The name of Bullrt train is due to the Shinkansen locomotive's resemblance to a bullet and its high speed.
The bullet train or Shinkansen train of Japan
The bullet train (Shinkansen) of Japan
The Eurostar train of England
The Eurostar train of England
The ICE/Nachtzug train of Germany
The TAV train of Italy
Trans-Siberian Railways Russia
The KTX train South Korea
The AVE train Spain
Great Southern Rail Limited Australia
The VR trains Finland
The TGV is France's high-speed rail service developed by GEC- Alsthom (now Alstom) and SNCF, the French national rail operator, and operated primarily by SNCF. Following the inaugural TGV service between Paris and Lyon in 1981, the TGV network, centred on Paris, has expanded to connect cities across France and in adjacent countries. It holds the record for the fastest wheeled train, having reached 574.8 km/h (357 mph) on 3 April 2007, and also holds the world's highest average speed for a regular passenger service. TGV is a registered trademark of SNCF. TGV is an acronym for train grande vitesse, French for "high-speed train".
The Bullet Train of Japan
Bullet trains or Shinkansen is a network of high- speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies. Test run speeds of the train have been 443 km/h (275 mph) for conventional rail in 1996, and up to a world record of 581 km/h (361 mph) for maglev trainsets, in 2003. Bullet trains or Shinkansen is the world busiest high-speed rail and carries 375,000 passengers a day. The name of Bullrt train is due to the Shinkansen locomotive's resemblance to a bullet and its high speed.
The bullet train or Shinkansen train of Japan
The bullet train (Shinkansen) of Japan
The Eurostar train of England
The Eurostar train of England
The ICE/Nachtzug train of Germany
The TAV train of Italy
Trans-Siberian Railways Russia
The KTX train South Korea
The AVE train Spain
Great Southern Rail Limited Australia
The VR trains Finland
RFID System
The Indian Railways is all geared to conduct a pilot project for automatic identification of railway wagons using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system across India.
The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) will oversee the pilot, run by a private firm.
According to highly placed sources at CRIS, the Indian Railways, decided to use RFID for effectively monitoring and utilizing the movement of wagons across the country.
"Indian Railways is the largest in the world and possesses about 230,000 freight wagons known freight railcars. Out of these, 200,000 wagons run on the Broad Gauge (BG) system. In order to improve the effective utilization of these wagons, it is proposed to implement a system of online tracking of these wagons as they move on the Railway system (comprising approximately 62000 route kilometers, including 48000 route kilometers on the BG system), using automatic identification and data capture methods," the sources said.
The sources said that during the 60-day pilot project, the railways proposes to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, affixing RFID tags to about 500 wagons.
"The pilot project envisages fixing of radio-frequency tags on 500 wagons plying on a defined section and automatically reading the data at four to five locations using both fixed and hand-held readers. It further envisages moving and storing the data in near-real-time to a central server located in CRIS, New Delhi. Interfaces from this server will provide the data to Indian Railways' Freight Operations Information System (FOIS) and other applications," they said.
Sources said the pilot project shall be implemented in the Talcher – Paradeep – Vishakhapatnam section of the East Coast Railway.
Data will be read at the entrance and exits to the yards at Talcher, Paradeep, and Vishakhapatnam, and the data of wagon numbers read from each tag, with timestamp, will be updated in the FOIS application and / or with any other application at a later date.
"Tag readers would be placed at various locations along the track. Handheld readers would also be given to staff at key railway installations. The readers would read identification data off the tags. This data would be transmitted to a central server. The central server would maintain historical data of wagon movement to enable tracing of wagon movements as well. A set of standard interfaces would be built into the central server for the use of different applications requiring the wagon track and trace data," the sources informed.
"Tagging of the wagons owned by Indian Railways and installation of trackside readers would be executed in phases. The scope of the present tender is a pilot project on one section of Indian Railways. Before going in for a full-fledged implementation effort on IR, the results of the pilot system will be intensively monitored and evaluated for a period of approximately two months to identify potential problem areas and formulate strategies to eliminate the identified problems," the sources added.
The CRIS will also explore extending the system in future with encoding information other than vehicle identification in a dynamic fashion onto the tag, integration of sensor-based solution and integration with a GIS system.
The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) will oversee the pilot, run by a private firm.
According to highly placed sources at CRIS, the Indian Railways, decided to use RFID for effectively monitoring and utilizing the movement of wagons across the country.
"Indian Railways is the largest in the world and possesses about 230,000 freight wagons known freight railcars. Out of these, 200,000 wagons run on the Broad Gauge (BG) system. In order to improve the effective utilization of these wagons, it is proposed to implement a system of online tracking of these wagons as they move on the Railway system (comprising approximately 62000 route kilometers, including 48000 route kilometers on the BG system), using automatic identification and data capture methods," the sources said.
The sources said that during the 60-day pilot project, the railways proposes to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, affixing RFID tags to about 500 wagons.
"The pilot project envisages fixing of radio-frequency tags on 500 wagons plying on a defined section and automatically reading the data at four to five locations using both fixed and hand-held readers. It further envisages moving and storing the data in near-real-time to a central server located in CRIS, New Delhi. Interfaces from this server will provide the data to Indian Railways' Freight Operations Information System (FOIS) and other applications," they said.
Sources said the pilot project shall be implemented in the Talcher – Paradeep – Vishakhapatnam section of the East Coast Railway.
Data will be read at the entrance and exits to the yards at Talcher, Paradeep, and Vishakhapatnam, and the data of wagon numbers read from each tag, with timestamp, will be updated in the FOIS application and / or with any other application at a later date.
"Tag readers would be placed at various locations along the track. Handheld readers would also be given to staff at key railway installations. The readers would read identification data off the tags. This data would be transmitted to a central server. The central server would maintain historical data of wagon movement to enable tracing of wagon movements as well. A set of standard interfaces would be built into the central server for the use of different applications requiring the wagon track and trace data," the sources informed.
"Tagging of the wagons owned by Indian Railways and installation of trackside readers would be executed in phases. The scope of the present tender is a pilot project on one section of Indian Railways. Before going in for a full-fledged implementation effort on IR, the results of the pilot system will be intensively monitored and evaluated for a period of approximately two months to identify potential problem areas and formulate strategies to eliminate the identified problems," the sources added.
The CRIS will also explore extending the system in future with encoding information other than vehicle identification in a dynamic fashion onto the tag, integration of sensor-based solution and integration with a GIS system.
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