Indian Railways introduced ‘Ideal Train Profile’

28/01/2023

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Indian Railways introduced ‘Ideal Train Profile’

The Indian Railways has presented ‘Ideal Train Profile’ to reach the maximum level of the capacity utilisation and revenue generation in reserved mail express trains by regularly analysing the demand pattern of every single train.

As per the official information received from the ministry, the deployment of Ideal Train Profile utility caters the railway administrators in the passenger profile cells in various zonal railways, a decision support tool to shorten the time taken for seat distribution analytics of a train.

What is Ideal Train Profile?

Ideal Train Profile is a seat capacity optimization decision support which is completed due to the fact that the number of ticket-class combinations on a single train journey date can exceed 5,000.

It is the best resolving process by allocating accommodation quotas based on the business need of serving the demands for different origin-destination pairs.

Before this it is worked on Indian railways by analyzing the historic data of a particular train or similar trains operating on a given route in traditional way.

According to Indian Railways, the pattern of demand for accommodation has not been always on an end-to-end basis but it varies in all trains depending on various factors.

The project on pilot basis:

The pilot project had been started on seven zonal railways – Eastern, Central, Northern, Southern, South Central, Western, and West Central Railway.

The pilot project had so far been launched in over 200 trains in Indian Railways.

Benefits of the Ideal Train project:

It has been an anticipation that the utility will assist to enhance confirmed seat availability and increase the occupancy of a train by up to 5 per cent.

The modules have been designed and developed by an in-house team after an extensive effort spanning over two years.

It will facilitate zonal railways to conduct a periodic review of the train quotas to handle the changing demand mix on account of holidays, seasonality, etc.