Railway terminal

Information system for a railway siding

Shared information for running the siding and for commercial freight, from the wagon's arrival to its departure onto the ŽSR network.

What the system covers

The information system for a railway siding supports the operation of the siding. It shares the information used to control transport and commercial freight. Users see the arrival of a wagon, its stay, and its departure to the ŽSR network, and they can follow the wagon through the handling it needs.

Basic features

recording of arrival and departure of wagons
records of unloading and loading
records of wagon repairs and maintenance
records of repairs outside the terminal
records of carriage cleaning
processing of weighing data
processing of shipment invoices
monitoring of carriage rental
standard and special shipment of wagons
daily and periodical balances
intranet connectivity
report generation

Short characteristics

The system stores arrival and departure of railway wagons and other useful information, such as repairs and maintenance. It processes weighing data from the railway weighing system, shipment invoices and invoices for repairs outside the terminal. It provides alphanumeric and graphic information about the layout of wagons actually present at the terminal.

Client functions

authorized personnel can modify tables that hold root data
elaboration of arrival and departure wagon lists
planning
repairs and maintenance of wagons on the terminal
recording of wagon cleaning
recording of repairs outside the terminal
processing of shipment invoices and invoices for repairs outside the terminal
recording of shunting on the terminal
status and balance reports
generation of supplementary reports
administration of access privileges according to position
electronic exchange of documents with the railway company
electronic interfaces to other plant systems (SAP, filling and weighing systems, EMCS)

An independent module processes files from the weighing system. It reads the file and updates the appropriate columns in the database tables.

Interface to the invoicing system

Where required, the information system can exchange data with the enterprise system for product invoices, using shared database tables or text files.

Intranet reporting

Besides the reports in the client, a set of intranet reports is available to client users and to other authorized users. Data can be saved to files or printed. Every intranet report lets the user set filtering conditions.

System architecture

The information system for railway sidings can be realized as:

A client/server installation. A database server, a client module for the data, and a set of report templates.
A web application in three-tier architecture on Oracle Fusion Middleware, using Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Forms / Reports Services (WLS_FORMS and WLS_REPORTS). The user interface is a Java applet in the browser. The third tier is the database server.
An intranet application in three-tier architecture. The user interface is the browser, the application is on the web server, and the database is the third tier. No installation is required on the client PC.