Information Systems in Indian Railways:
Indian
Railways establishment rules are detailed in Indian Railways
Establishment codes, Manuals and any changes will be notified through
Gazette as well as Circulars from Railway Board. Some of the extracts
of the establishment rules are reproduced on this site.
The articles are intended to be interpretation of Establishment Rules
detailed in Manuals and Codes. In any case of any doubt readers are
requested to refer the Manuals and Circulars published on the Indian
Railways website.
General Information about Indian Railway
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Railways all over the world progressively implements Information
Technology for improvement in efficiency and for better management.
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Computerised Management Information System (MIS) helps in planning, monitoring and decision making of all modern Railways.
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On IR the development of a system for availability of information on
freight operations as an aid to decision making was mooted and first
sanctioned in 1983-84 as due to the sheer size and complexity of freight
operations the management of freight operations was highly complex.
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Central Organisation for Freight Operations Information System (COFOIS
) which was later replaced by Centre for Railway Information System
with a wider scope.
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A prototype of Freight Operations Information System (FOIS)
application software comprising Rake Management System (RMS) and
Terminal Management System (TMS) was developed by CRIS and implemented
in Northern Railway in 2000.
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RMS covered various operational functions relating to routing,
tracking and yard activities and had seven submodules while TMS covered
the commercial activities pertaining to goods’ sheds such as generation
and accounting of Railway Receipts etc and had 11 sub-modules.
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This system is indigenously developed and at present fully functional on Broad Gauge system.
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CRIS also maintains the Systems for Unreserved Ticketing System(UTS) and Passenger Reservation System(PRS)
Integrated Database Management
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Development of an integrated MIS through a Data warehouse comprising
Unreserved Ticketing System(UTS), Passenger Reservation System(PRS) and
FOIS is proposed.
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The proposed system will boost efficiency. Development of application
have been distributed among three pilot projects with an aim to make
optimum utilisation of available recourses and to implement the project
in a time bound manner with pilot sites at Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi
Divisions.
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The project is designed to develop and implement functional modules on
the pilot sites and replication of same all over the IR in a phased
manner.
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The project is designed to meet the information needs of Managers at Divisional, Zonal and Board levels.
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So far the computerisation on Indian Railways have been in customer
related areas like Passenger Reservation(PRS), FOIS, National Train
Enquiry System(NTES) etc and some other areas relating to payroll,
financial management and inventory and the work done is mainly from the
EDP centres attached to Divisional, headquarters offices.
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In order to develop a really integrated and comprehensive information
system useful to all level of management , it is necessary to have
computer based applications of all underlying activities covering all
departments like Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Signal and
Telecommunications , Security, Medical etc.
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In order to complete this herculean task in a time bound manner the
work is segregated to the pilot sites and modular approach is done for
developing functional modules for each department.
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UML Diagrams for Railway Reservation
Unified Modelling Language Practicals.
This Subject is called as UML in Mumbai University MCA Colleges. Below
is the case study of it for the construction of different UML diagrams
Case Study :-RAILWAY RESERVATION SYSTEM
Railway Reservation System is a system used for booking tickets over
internet.Any Customer Can book tickets for different trains.Customer can
book a ticket only if the tickets are available.Customer searches for
the availability of tickets then if the tickets are available he books
the tickets by initially filling details in a form.Tickets can be booked
in two ways by i-ticket or by e-ticket booking.
In case of i-ticket booking customer can book the tickets online and the
tickets are couriered to Particular customer at their address.But in
case of e-ticket booking and cancelling tickets are booked and cancelled
online sitting at the home and customer himself has to take print of
the ticket but in both the cases amount for tickets are deducted from
customers account.
For cancellation of ticket the customer has to go at reservation office
than fill cancellation form and ask the clerk to cancel the ticket than
the refund is transferred to customer account.After booking ticket the
customer has to checkout by paying fare amount to clerk.
Use Case Diagram :- Railway Reservation
ACTIVITY DIAGRAM FOR BOOKING
TICKET:
ACTIVITY DIAGRAM FOR CANCEL
TICKET:
CLASS DIAGRAM FOR RAILWAY
RESERVATION SYSTEM:
COLLABORATION DIAGRAM FOR CANCEL
TICKET:
COLLABORATION DIAGRAM FOR BOOKING
TICKET:
SEQUENCE DIAGRAM FOR CANCEL
TICKET:
SEQUENCE DIAGRAM FOR BOOKING
TICKET:
DEPLOYMENT DIAGRAM
FOR RAILWAY RESERVATION SYSTEM:
COMPONENT DIAGRAM FOR RAILWAY
RESERVATION SYSTEM :