Real-time Train Information System (RTIS) project is being executed by Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), which is an Information Technology arm of the Ministry of Railways, in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is primarily used for acquisition of train movement data, including that of arrival, departure, run-through timings at the stations in route. As the RTIS devices have been installed in locomotives, the trains hauled by such locomotives get tracked through this system. The zone-wise details of installation of RTIS device in the passenger and goods train locomotives till 20.11.2019, are as under:

 

Zone	Number of Passenger Locomotives	Number of Goods Locomotives
Central Railway	103	217
East Coast Railway	53	140
East Central Railway	89	76
Eastern Railway	130	28
North Central Railway	44	71
Northern Railway	268	61
South Central Railway	146	127
South East Central Railway	50	14
South Eastern Railway	121	157
Southern Railway	232	48
West Central Railway	181	116
Western Railway	177	00
Total	1594	1055

 

Additional funds for installation of RTIS system in 6000 more locomotives (both passenger and goods) have been sanctioned in 2019.

The automatic acquisition of the train running data by the RTIS system helps in improving the efficiency of train control, dissemination of accurate train running information to the passengers and freight customers, and emergency messaging between locomotive and control centre.

This information was given by the Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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(Release ID: 1593891)