Railway Disaster Prevention System Using Gis and Gps
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Hyderabad, India
RAILWAY DISASTER PREVENTION SYSTEM USING GIS and GPS Varun Prakash* and Sonali kumari* Email id: vpdreams2002@yahoo.co.in, sonali_1z@yahoo.co.in
INTRODUCTION Railway industry has a valuable role in economic development of each country . India 's massive rail network is hit by an average of 300 accidents a year. Accident management in railway decision making has to consider the following two issues to avoid or mitigate the damages: (i) accident prevention and development of an alarming system to predict and alarm before the occurrence of accidents. (ii) reduction of negative effects of accidents after its occurrence through proper emergency and management services. To achieve the above-mentioned objectives, necessary steps have been taken to simulate train movement, accidents and rail accident management system. The major problems in the simulation include, (i)the lack of appropriate information, (ii)the problem of making real accident scene environment due to human and cost issues and (iii) problems in performing a comprehensive test on the system. CURRENT TRAIN ACCIDENT SENARIO IN INDIA : 150 years after it first chugged on course of a glorious ongoing journey, Indian Railways bears a rather dual distinction today. It is the second largest rail network under one management but with a record number of accidents. From a 'Puffing Dragon ' to 'Electrical Giant on rail ' and then a lifeline to the country, Indian Railways has come a long way but its infrastructure and the system has not. It has been killing people regularly, thanks to antiquated infrastructure, ill maintenance, and worst of all -- HUMAN ERROR, blamed for two-thirds of about an estimated 400 "consequential" rail accidents that take place in a year. Last year accounted for 460 accidents. Twenty-five of them were collisions. No wonder, the slow modernisation of Indian Railways has made foreign media often dubs it as a rolling railway museum attracting nostalgic
Hyderabad, India
RAILWAY DISASTER PREVENTION SYSTEM USING GIS and GPS Varun Prakash* and Sonali kumari* Email id: vpdreams2002@yahoo.co.in, sonali_1z@yahoo.co.in
INTRODUCTION Railway industry has a valuable role in economic development of each country . India 's massive rail network is hit by an average of 300 accidents a year. Accident management in railway decision making has to consider the following two issues to avoid or mitigate the damages: (i) accident prevention and development of an alarming system to predict and alarm before the occurrence of accidents. (ii) reduction of negative effects of accidents after its occurrence through proper emergency and management services. To achieve the above-mentioned objectives, necessary steps have been taken to simulate train movement, accidents and rail accident management system. The major problems in the simulation include, (i)the lack of appropriate information, (ii)the problem of making real accident scene environment due to human and cost issues and (iii) problems in performing a comprehensive test on the system. CURRENT TRAIN ACCIDENT SENARIO IN INDIA : 150 years after it first chugged on course of a glorious ongoing journey, Indian Railways bears a rather dual distinction today. It is the second largest rail network under one management but with a record number of accidents. From a 'Puffing Dragon ' to 'Electrical Giant on rail ' and then a lifeline to the country, Indian Railways has come a long way but its infrastructure and the system has not. It has been killing people regularly, thanks to antiquated infrastructure, ill maintenance, and worst of all -- HUMAN ERROR, blamed for two-thirds of about an estimated 400 "consequential" rail accidents that take place in a year. Last year accounted for 460 accidents. Twenty-five of them were collisions. No wonder, the slow modernisation of Indian Railways has made foreign media often dubs it as a rolling railway museum attracting nostalgic
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