MINISTER OF STATE FOR RAILWAYS LAUNCHES ACD SURVEY ON 400 ROUTE KILO METRES

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The Minister of State for Railways Shri Bandaru Dattatraya launched Anti Collision Device (ACD) survey on 400 kilometre long Renigunta-Guntakal-Toranagallu route at a function on South Central Railway in Andhra Pradesh today.

The survey, to be done by the Konkan Railway Corporation in collaboration with the South Central Railway in Guntakal Division, will map satellite coverage all along the route and identify shadow areas, radio reception to monitor and map radio signal reception to locate repeaters where needed, station survey and design for deviation count profiling all the station yards and alternate methods to derive the track identification automatically by an ACD fitted locomotive.

The ACD survey will be completed by June 15, 2003.

The ACD, developed by the Konkan Railway, is power of knowledge improving safety device, a micro processed based equipment, comprising a central processing unit, a Global Position System and digital radio modem for communication with other ACDs. When loaded on loco alongwith auto-braking unit, it becomes loco ACD. When fitted to guard-van, it becomes guard ACD, at station, it becomes station ACD and at level crossing gates, it becomes gate ACD. They all network among themselves, exchange information and take decision to prevent collision type of dangerous situation well in time automatically without manual, inputs, forming Raksha Kavach.

At present, ACD survey on 1800 route kilometres on Northeast Frontier Railway in the North Eastern Region is on. It has been successfully tried by Indian Railways.

The ACD is designed to prevent collision between two trains, thus, making safety of train services in this area a foolproof device.