Real Time Tracking System: Indian Railways has created a Real-time Train Information System (RTIS) with the help of ISRO, with the help of which it will now be easier to track trains in real time. Indian Railways has introduced real-time information system to track train movement timings.
The Real Time Train Information System (RTIS), developed in collaboration with ISRO, is being installed on locomotives for automatic timing of train movement at stations. This will make it easier to track these trains. Indian Railways has installed RTIS devices on 2,700 locomotives in 21 electric loco sheds. The Railway Ministry said that RTIS will update the location in a period of 30 seconds. Also, RTIS can more closely track the location and speed of the locomotive/train without any human intervention.
In the second phase, 6,000 more locomotives will be covered in 50 loco sheds using ISRO’s SATCOM hub. At present, the GPS feed from about 6,500 locomotives (RTIS and REMMLOT) is being fed directly to the Control Office Application (COA). This has made possible automatic charting of trains and real-time information to passengers through COA and NTES integration.
Chatbot performance great
Meanwhile, the newly launched chatbot of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) is getting great response from train passengers during its beta launch. Because till now more than 1 billion people have used it. A railway official said that using the chatbot to book railway tickets would be very convenient.
At least 25 percent of the customers will use it in future
According to a railway official, at least 25 percent passengers will use IRCTC’s chatbot Askdisha in the coming times. IRCTC’s chatbot AskDisha 2.0 aims to provide accurate and quick answers to the passengers’ queries. The official said that with the help of this, a lot of time will be saved.
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