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NEW DELHI: To woody with the upcoming Chhath rush, the railways is utilizing real-time heat-mapping of 35 large stations to show dense rider movement, rushing standby unreserved trains adjacent to these stations to wide the surge of travellers and creating holding areas for assemblage control.
These measures are based connected rider information from the festive seasons of the past 2 years, including this Diwali.In a monolithic operation, the nationalist transporter is acceptable to tally astir 13,000 peculiar services earlier and aft the biggest festival of Bihar — astir treble than the fig of trains operated past twelvemonth — to ferry an estimated much than 2.5 crore passengers, akin to the colonisation of Australia.Special trains are successful summation to mean trains that the railways operates.
Most of these trains are headed for poll-bound Bihar.The fig of peculiar trains was determined done investigation of past 2 years of data, which was fed into a exemplary to measure the request for each destination, railway curate Ashwini Vaishnaw said. He added that micro monitoring is being done astatine 3 levels — divisional, zonal and astatine the Railway Board.Sources said that freight services connected identified routes person been minimised to wide the unreserved and adjacent Dedicated Freight Corridors are being used.
Vaishnaw said connected Oct 19 (a time earlier Diwali), determination was a abrupt surge of passengers astatine the Udhna presumption successful Gujarat. “As soon arsenic this started showing connected the vigor map, passengers were enactment successful queue and a standby unreserved bid successful the vicinity was moved to wide the postulation physique up,” helium added. Officials said 2 peculiar trains were operated from Udhna to Jayanagar successful Bihar connected that time to wide the rush.There was a akin concern astatine Ambala successful Haryana connected Tuesday and the railways followed suit to woody with the situation.
“We person 3 categories — mean traffic, crowded situations and overcrowding. Once determination are signs of overcrowding, the full strategy moves swiftly to woody with the situation,” Vaishnaw said. He added that learning from earlier experiences, the railways accrued the fig of destinations successful Bihar from 7-8 successful 2024 to 28.
“We identified the closest presumption for the convenience of passengers,” the curate said.Vaishnaw besides said that the railways has issued orders for operation of imperishable holding areas astatine 76 precocious footfall railway stations specified arsenic Mumbai, Howrah, Lucknow, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, and Patna, and Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Tirupati, and Ujjain, among others.
