Center For Railway Information System, India

The Challenge

National Train Enquiry System is a reliable centralized information system, which provides Up-to-date and accurate information to the passengers regarding:

• Arrival/Departure of passenger trains, including Expected time of arrival (ETA) of trains.
• Platform berthing of passenger trains
• Journey Planning
• Facilities available at stations
• Railway Rules

The railway inquiry system was available to the user through Display Boards, Interactive Voice Response System, Public Address System, Face-to-Face Enquiry, CCTV. The technology boom has highlighted the problem area for the train inquiry system- the web interface. The need was to build a web interface which takes care of all the online train inquiry.

The Solution

Convergent Technologies has web enabled the Train Enquiry Sy Solution Framework

Convergent Technologies has web enabled the Train Enquiry System to provide quick and accurate information to the end user. The Online query system is built using Microsoft .Net framework and SQL Server as the databse.

 Key Feature:

• NTES Database Replicated from Real-time Database
• Original Time-table
• Running Status of Trains (trains running on/behind schedule)
• Expected Arrival of all trains at a station during the selected timeframe
• Expected Departure of all trains at a station during the selected timeframe
• List of all trains running between the selected source and destination stations
• Interlinking between Modules

External Links:

NTES Database à Uses Application Triggers to replicate the data from the Central Database at CRIS for Real-time Information

PNR Status/Availability/Fares Links to www.indianrailways.gov.in

Technology Framework:

• Microsoft.Net Framework
• NTES User Interface: C#, ASP.net
• Web Server: IIS 5.0
• Database Server: MS SQL Server 2000
• Replication Application: C#

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