RTIS Fitted on 2,600+ Locomotives so far

ISRO-enabled GPS trackers for over 2600 locos

Over 2600 locomotives (passenger and freight have been fit with GPS tracker devices according to Piyush Goyal, Union Rail Minister.

Additional funds for installation of real time information system (RTIS) in 6000 more locomotives (both passenger and goods) have been sanctioned in 2019, he added replying to a parliament question.

 Real-time Train Information System (RTIS) project is being executed by Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) -IR’s IT arm in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

It is primarily used for acquisition of train movement data, including arrival, departure, run-through timings at the stations enroute.

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 as on November 20,2019 is as follows:

ZoneNumber of Passenger LocomotivesNumber of Goods Locomotives
Central Railway103217
East Coast Railway53140
East Central Railway8976
Eastern Railway13028
North Central Railway4471
Northern Railway26861
South Central Railway146127
South East Central Railway5014
South Eastern Railway121157
Southern Railway23248
West Central Railway181116
Western Railway17700
Total15941055

Benefits:

Use of RTIS helps in improving the efficiency of train operations, better dissemination of train running information to passengers and freight customers besides emergency messaging between locomotive and control centre.

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