Black box in rail coaches
The Indian railways has unveiled the first batch of smart rail coaches in Rae Bareli city of Uttar Pradesh. The smart coaches will have black boxes just like aircraft and this technology is being adopted to bring down the incidents of train accidents.
Talking more about the new technology, an official from Indian railways said that black boxes used in the train are better from the ones used in planes and will also make traveling safer. These boxes will prevent mishaps like derailments. The boxes will also monitor the train on several parameters. And if there is any case of deviation, the surveillance unit would be alerted immediately.
Besides this, smart coaches will have other features such as smart CCTV cameras, passenger information system, infotainment software and wi-fi access.
Last year, between April 1, 2017, and March 30 this year, only 73 accidents were recorded, which is 29 per cent less than the 104 accidents that were reported in the year 2016-2017. Earlier, Indian Railways used to record at least 1,000 accidents except for the year 1968-69 when the number of accidents fell to 908 for the first time in many years.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had tabbed safety as his first priority. With that, an Rs. 7,267 crore was allocated to Indian Railways in 2018-2019 for safety in the Budget 2018-19. The huge amount allocated will look after the repair work, maintenance, and track inspection. There’s an enormous Rs. 5, 334 crore uplift from the year 2017-18 to this year. Indian Railways is committed to providing safety of its passengers and hence its main priority is to remove the clogs in the existent functioning. Up-gradation of Railway tracks, elimination of unmanned level crossings, replacing traditional ICF coaches with LHB coaches, the introduction of new signaling systems are some of the main features which Railways intend to look at.
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