DEVELOPMENTS IN PRS: HOW THE INFORMATION CAN BE UTILISED FOR IMPROVING THE SYSTEM

DEVELOPMENTS IN PRS:
HOW THE INFORMATION CAN
BE UTILISED FOR IMPROVING
THE SYSTEM
By:- ANURAG KAPIL
IRAS
Concept of Passenger Reservation
System
•
Booking
Simple ticket selling.
No guarantee of seat.
•
Reservation
Ticket & guarantee of accommodation.
Development Of The PRS
•
•
Manual system.
Infirmities With The Manual System.
–
–
–
–
–
–
Slow and time consuming
Unbalanced load on clerks
No updating of the of current status
Inadvertent errors by the clerks
Problem of messages
Malpractices
Complications Of The Reservation
System
1. Large number of fares – telescopic, circulars etc.
2. Seven different classes of travel.
3. Thirty different quotas.
4. One hundred and twenty five different types of
concessions.
5. Ninety different types of the layouts of the passenger
coaches.
6. And in same fashion different types of refunds.
7. Accounting.
8. Excess and short fare remittances.
Path Of Computerisation
• CRIS (Center for Railway Information
System)

•
•
•
•
•
IMPRESS
(Integrated Multi Train
Passenger Reservation System)
Written in Fortran using VAX system
One-to- one communication and linkage.
Thus requiring more process time.
Cannot respond to many queries
simultaneously.
Thus reduced efficiency
CONCERT
(Country-Wide Network For Computerized Enhanced Reservation
And Ticketing)
• Developed by CRIS.
• Is a total networking solution to Indian Railways
PRS.
• Operates from five regional centres(Delhi,
Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Secunderabad).
• Machine language used is 'C‘.
• One-to- many communication thus requiring less
process time.
• System can respond to many queries.
• Uses client-server model for distributed
computing is a total solution to the networking of
the PRS.
Information in a Computerised
Ticket
Train number
Date of travel
Distance
Class & Coach of accommodation
Originating & Destination station
Boarding station
Seat & Berth number
Sex and Age of the passenger
Charges paid in figures and words
Travel Authority
Time of departure at the boarding station and originating
station
PNR number
Random number unique to train-date-class
TYPES OF THE REPORTS
GENERATED BY THE PRS AND SEND TO TRAFFIC ACCOUNTS OFFICE
SN
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
TYPE OF INFORMATION
SUMMARY(CASH & PSGN INF)
SUMMARY(CASH , INFO)
SUMMARY(TKT & PSGN INF)
SUMMARY OF GROSS EARNINGS
GROSS EARNINGS(PRS SITE WISE)
STATEMENT OF VOUCHERS
STATEMENT OF CST
STMT. OF CONC. (WITH SUPPORTING)
STMT. OF MD/SPLCAN TKT
STMT. OF NON ISSUE TKT
CANCELLATION SUMMARY STMT.
RTC STATEMENT
CONTINUITY STATEMENT
EARNINGS-ST5 STMT.
DAILY STMT OF BANK CARD TKTS
DAILY BANK CARD- ROPD TKTS ST
DAILY BANK CARD- MODIFIED TKT
DAILY BLANK PAPER TKT REPRT
GROSS EARNINGS. GAUGE WISE
STATEMENT OF RESV. FEE
HOURLY SUMMARY OF TXN(NORMAL HRS)
HOURLY SUMMARY OF TXN(BEF 08.00)
HOURLY SUMM. OF TXN ( AFT 20.00)
BILL REGISTER
VOUCHER REGISTER
LINKING STATEMENT OF VOUCHERS
TRAINWISE DELAY STATUS REPORT
CHANGE OF NAME REPORT
GROSS EARNINGS (L/F)
SAFETY SURCHARGE REPORT
USER WISE DAILY SUMMARY(CASH)
CLASS WISE SAFETY SURCHARGE REP.
STATEMENT OF FREEDOM FIGHTER
STATEMENT OF POLICE/JAIL REQ.
MONTHLY
Y
Y
N
Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
N
N
Y
Y
N
N
N
Y
Y
Y
N
N
Y
N
N
N
Y
Y
PERIODICAL
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Y
N
N
N
N
Y
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Y
N
N
N
N
N
DAILY
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
N
Utilization of Reports by the
Traffic Accounts Office
• Station Balance Sheet.
• Earnings from Originating, Terminating
Traffic.
• Budgetary processes.
• Cancellation trends.
• Monitoring that the customer is paying proper
amount .
• Issue bills to Defence, P &T, Parliament and
Assemblies.
• Apportionment calculations.
• Traffic Fore-casting.
Improvements
(Usually the Information is Delayed)
• Traffic Accounts be given a dummy
terminal to monitor the data and the
information.
• All the information be made available to
the Traffic Accounts Office On-Line.