Mapping the 22.7-km Metro corridor from Connaught Place to the Indira Gandhi International Airport, on GIS will help in mobilising emergency services in case of a blast or fire.
The Delhi Metro's Airport Express Line, which will take passengers from Connaught Place to the international airport here in 18 minutes, will be mapped on Geographic Information System (GIS) to enhance safety, maintenance and traffic regulation, a first of its kind exercise in India.
Mapping the 22.7-km Metro corridor from Connaught Place to the Indira Gandhi International Airport, which is expected to become operational by September 2010, on GIS will help in mobilising emergency services in case of a blast or fire on the train.
The Reliance Infrastructure-led Delhi Airport Metro Express Pvt Ltd, a Special Purpose Vehicle created to implement the Airport Express line, will map all the emergency services including fire stations, police stations, hospitals etc along the alignment, a company spokesperson said.
The spokesperson told PTI that the company has already made some maps for the Delhi alignment. Once the construction of the corridor is complete, locations of the piers, viaduct, stations will be imported into GIS.
"GIS technology will enable efficient maintenance of the Metro line and it will have layers ranging from technical details of pillars, piers and transformers," the spokesperson said.
GIS is a system of mapping spatial information/data in various layers and representing it in the form of a map. "GIS is one of the sophisticated technologies which we are using for implementation of the Metro project. This would go a long way in providing a quick and efficient service to the people," the spokesperson said.
The layers correspond to the Metro corridor, utilities, land base including roads, landmarks, buildings, rivers and railway crossings. It also maintains information on the equipment like underground cables, transformers, piers, viaduct, stations and tracks. The spokesperson said the GIS will help mainly in maintenance of the system.
"With the help of GIS maps the exact location of the fault along the network can be determined and maintenance team can be dispatched immediately. This will ensure speedy maintenance and a better and reliable service," the spokesperson said.
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