The Centre for Railway Information Service (CRIS) has launched a web service that gives information about a train’s location, and its schedule status. The service is running in beta at railradar.trainenquiry.com, and it is currently programmed to track 6,500 of the total 10,000 trains operated by the Indian Railways. Rail Radar gives information about a train’s arrival at the various stops on its route, and displays its location on the country’s map.

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The RailRadar system works on a series on 6,000 monitoring stations that update the servers with time of a train’s arrival in its zone. The system has been designed to refresh information every five minutes; however, practically the time between updates could be more depending on the train’s location. The web service has been designed to work with mobile platforms, which reportedly has accounted for 20% of traffic.

Source: MediaNama