Data on Railway Passenger Traffic

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Rithika Kumar

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Jul 15, 2019, 3:45:40 PM7/15/19
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Dear all,

I had a question regarding the availability of/ access to Railway passenger traffic data. Is this data publicly available? i am looking for the data on origin to destination trips made by passengers on Indian railways. It was used in the Economic Survey, 2017 (Chapter 12: https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/budget2017-2018/es2016-17/echap12.pdf).

Any leads on this will be greatly appreciated.

Best,
Rithika

Nikhil VJ

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Jul 16, 2019, 12:12:40 AM7/16/19
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Hi Rithika,

No answers on my end but sharing more avenues for looking

In case you haven't already, join up and post this query on the Indian rail fans forum: https://www.irfca.org/

Ideas:
- If we take a median / default assumption that all seats are occupied, then one can take the schedules and find out seats capacity in each train and calculate.
- After that, stats from under-capacity running trains would have to be deducted,
- and stats from over-capacity running trains would have to be added.

- ticketing data.. ?

Some links from general searches:
- http://www.dw.indianrail.gov.in/dw.asp - data warehouse. Seems like an internal site. Maybe somebody knows somebody who can login?
- https://data.gov.in/keywords/indian-railways - not so relevant to original question, but worth keeping a followthatpage watcher on.
- https://data.gov.in/catalog/indian-railways-train-time-table-0 - pretty big and important dataset of schedules, and updated fairly recently considering how dated other datasets are - also worth tracking

- Nikhil VJ, Pune, India

Hemant K

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Jul 18, 2019, 4:02:27 PM7/18/19
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Hi Rithika:

Interesting data to look for. I would be interested in it too. Please post back here on what you find.

-Hemant


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The Federal Data

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Jul 20, 2019, 11:03:20 AM7/20/19
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the passenger data(including segmental revenues and passenger KM) can be got from Railways statistics yearbook from MOSPI site 

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srinivas kodali

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Jul 23, 2019, 1:12:21 PM7/23/19
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also some aggregated data is published near real-time on rail drishti portal https://www.raildrishti.in/raildrishti/dashboard.jsp

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Nishadh K A

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Jul 23, 2019, 11:24:14 PM7/23/19
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The table (table 12) contains zone wise and then different class wise(1 AC, 2 AC, 3 AC, sleeper or second class) passenger carried for those years. 
Indian railway has very standardised data publication routine, seems each tables in the report are defined several decades before, the introductory note in the report discuss about that. Unfortunately, the digital data forms(pdf files) are could find for these two period. The pdf files are data readable but need lot of cleanup.   

Naraina Damle

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Jul 30, 2019, 10:41:30 AM7/30/19
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Interesting.


On Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 10:42:21 PM UTC+5:30, srinivas kodali wrote:
also some aggregated data is published near real-time on rail drishti portal https://www.raildrishti.in/raildrishti/dashboard.jsp

Regards,
Srinivas Kodali


On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:33 PM The Federal Data <ven...@thefederal.in> wrote:
the passenger data(including segmental revenues and passenger KM) can be got from Railways statistics yearbook from MOSPI site 

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:15 AM Rithika Kumar <rithika...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,

I had a question regarding the availability of/ access to Railway passenger traffic data. Is this data publicly available? i am looking for the data on origin to destination trips made by passengers on Indian railways. It was used in the Economic Survey, 2017 (Chapter 12: https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/budget2017-2018/es2016-17/echap12.pdf).

Any leads on this will be greatly appreciated.

Best,
Rithika

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