Unreserved ticketing constitutes major component of the overall ticketing in Indian Railways. It contributes a large amount of earning for Indian Railways.
UTS is the complete solution to provide computerized unreserved tickets to railway passengers from dedicated counter terminals, hand held terminals, smart card, automatic vending machines etc. The backend architecture is 3 tiered. The 4th tier will consist of ticketing terminals (dump, Win terms), ATM m/c, Hand held terminals.
UTS Application is divide into two part front-end and back-end. Frontend is developed using C++ on UNIX platform. And the backend is Sybase, which is used to store information generated at, front-end and supply input value. Application is divide into modules like ticketing subsystem, fare and UDM & TDM.
Communication Interfaces
Connectivity between Station servers and Zonal servers as well as between Zonal server and Central server is over WAN. Terminal connectivity is over LAN. TCP/IP is used as network protocol. Preferably, PRS work augmentation or RAIL Tel is going to provide Bandwidth. The Station server is connected to Zonal server by 64 kbps line. For Inter Zone connectivity existing PRS channels would be used.
Sanctioned as a pilot project by the Ministry of Railway, this project is planned to be implemented in two phases. In the first phase, 10 stations of Delhi area are provided with booking terminals. These stations are :
New Delhi Delhi Jn. Hazrat Nizammudin Delhi-Shahdara
Ghaziabad Shakurb asti Delhi Kishanganj Sarojini Nagar
Shivaji Bridge Tilak Bridge
In the second phase 13 other stations of Delhi area are provided with booking terminals on 2nd October, 2002. The stations are:
Delhi Sadar Bazar Dayabasti Subzi Mandi Delhi Azadpur
Okhla Sewa Nagar New Azadpur Badli
Vivek Vihar Sahibabad Vivekanandpuri New Ghaziabad
Mangolpuri
The project will give the following benefits :
Computerised unreserved ticket from a predefined cluster of location to any station over entire IR
Computerised Tickets for MST/QST & platform tickets
Across the counter cancellation of tickets
Correct accountal of the tickets issued with respect of fare applicable including other charges if any
Elimination of the possibilities of manipulations and malpractice by q Providing secure access mechanism by way of access control card
Printers with more security features like MICR reader. For any pair of originating and destination point for a particular class and index number will be printed on ticket so that the ticket issued and ticket collected can be linked. The bar code on basis of a bogie will be generated and printed on ticket and at collection centers a bar code reader can check the genuineness of the ticket provide for stock inventory control.
Centralised Accounting including generation of ROPD
Centralised database and system administration
Centralised software release/ upgrades
More user friendly interface
Interface for hand held ticketing device provided to the TTEs in the trains
Interface with self operated touch screen kiosks
Provision of Smart card based Automatic vending Machines
Enhanced auditing features
Provide for generic routing algorithm to find routes from any station to any station
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