ROLE OF MIS IN INDIAN RAILWAYS

GROUP MEMBERS

MILIND AMKAR. NINAD MORE. RESHMA NAIR. ROOHI SALVI. NISHANT SHEWALE. CHANDRAPRAKSH SHREENATH WAMAN. PRIYANKA MAHAJAN. ASHWINI KULKARNI. AKSHAY KHEDKAR. AMRUTANAND KALE.

INTRODUCTION

IT & INDIAN RAILWAY

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

Five year period

Stage Description

Period 1:

2005-10

Automation The automation of the existing functional areas of railways. Examples are PRS and FOIS. By 2010, process automation will be by and large complete.

Period 2:

2010-15

Synergy 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.

Period 3:

2015-20

Global Acceptance The databases across the organizational network will find increasing acceptance as authentic sources of information.

Period 4:

2020-25

Integration A total revamp of IS built in the last twenty years. It will include forecasting, modeling etc.

Roadmap for IT in Railways

Level No: Level Type of System Description Examples

1 Operational

Transaction processing system A TPS helps to streamline operating tasks and is primarily for use by frontline staff.

PRS and FOIS

2 Knowledge Level

Office Automation System Set of tools that enables knowledge workers to streamline their own work.

MS Office Suite

Knowledge Work System Set of tools that enable skilled workers in specialized jobs to streamline their work.

Computer Aided Design(CAD)

3 Managerial

Management Information System It collects information from the base TPS system, collates it and presents it to the management.

MIS reports in PRS and FOIS

Decision Support System It provides assistance to managers in taking decisions. Highly summarized data which allows analysis.

4 Strategic Executive Support System Assists top management in formulating long term policies and plans.

Long Range Decision Support Systems(LRDSS)

LEVELS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

NEED OF CRIS

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.

PROJECTS OF CRIS

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

FOIS

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

traffic

User driven design and

implementation

Foundations for a total

logistics system

FUTURE APPROACH

DESIGN &DEVELOPMENT OF MIS DATAWARE HOUSE & DATA MINING CAPABILITIES

WEB ENABLED REPORTS

PASSENGER RESERVATION SYSTEM (PRS)

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.

NATIONAL TRAIN ENQUIRY SERVICE (NTES)

BOOKING OF TICKETS ON THE INTERNET

INTEGRATED COACHING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

(ICMS)

•UNRESERVED TICKETING SYSTEM (UTS)

OFFICE AUTOMATION E-WORKING GROUP (OAEW)

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) 

CHALLENGES FACED BY RAILWAYS

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

SYSTEMS

INTEGRATION

ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

Strategic Enterprise Management

Business Intelligence and

Data Warehousing

Managerial Accounting

Financial Accounting

Regulatory Reporting

CRM Market Research PRS Call CentreCustomer Data

BaseCustomer Service

OPERATIONS FOIS Crew SchedulingStation

ManagementPARCEL

MANAGEMENTTrain Planning

MAINTENANCEEngineering

PlanningRolling Stock Maintenance

Inventory Management

Infrastructure Maintenance

Asset Life Cycle Management

BUSINESS SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Human Resources Management

Procurement and Contract

Management

Cash Flow Management

Real Estate Management

Litigation Management

DATA PROCESSING

SYSTEMS

DATA CAPTURETERMINALS,FIXED,

HAND-HELDPDAS

MOBILE PHONES

DATA LOGGERS SCADA SYSTEMS

CONTROL OFFICE APPLICATIONS

INDIAN RAILWAY ENTERPRISE COMPUTING

APPLICATIONS

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING INDIAN RAILWAY PORTAL

FUTURE TRENDS IN IT IN INDIAN RAILWAYS

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

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