{"id":28728,"date":"2017-07-18T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T09:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=28728"},"modified":"2017-07-18T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T09:39:48","slug":"satellite-based-unmanned-railway-crossing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/satellite-based-unmanned-railway-crossing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite based Unmanned Railway Crossing Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: satellite-based chip systems to alert road users at unmanned level crossings will be installed in \u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Mumbai and Howrah Rajdhani Trains<br \/>\n(b) Mumbai and Guwahati Rajdhani Trains<br \/>\n(c) Howrah and New Delhi Rajdhani Trains<br \/>\n(d) Amritsar and New Delhi Rajdhani Trains<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed a satellite-based chip systems to alert road users at unmanned level crossings about approaching trains and also help in tracking train movement on a real-time basis.<\/li>\n<li>On a pilot basis, the Mumbai and Guwahati Rajdhani trains will be equipped with this system.<\/li>\n<li>This system will warn road users by hooters once a train approaches an unmanned level crossing.<br \/>\nThis technology will be extended to more trains in a phase-wise manner, according to the plan.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite-based system will also be used for tracking trains for disseminating information about their movement on real time basis.<\/li>\n<li>Notably, there are about 10,000 unmanned railway crossings in the country which account for around 40 per cent of accidents involving the railways.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Related Links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/isro-made-system-to-alert-users-at-unmanned-level-crossings\/article19144711.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/isro-made-system-to-alert-users-at-unmanned-level-crossings\/article19144711.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/isro-made-chip-system-to-alert-users-at-unmanned-railway-crossings-1716788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/isro-made-chip-system-to-alert-users-at-unmanned-railway-crossings-1716788<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: satellite-based chip systems to alert road users at unmanned level crossings will be installed in \u2026 (a) Mumbai and Howrah Rajdhani Trains (b) Mumbai and Guwahati Rajdhani Trains (c) Howrah and New Delhi Rajdhani Trains (d) Amritsar and New Delhi Rajdhani Trains Ans: (b) Related facts:- The Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}