Hi Aashish, I was frustrated with my personal experience with delays and with the talk of bullet trains when the ordinary trains were persistently delayed by 2-3 hours over a running time which was much the same!
I applied for an RTI a couple of months back to MoRl on "number of actual arrivals at final destination" vs "number of arrivals with a delay of 30 mins or more" for a period of 30 days from 4th June-4th July. On filing an appeal, I started getting varying responses from the 17 odd zones. Interestingly, the Railway Board didn't seem to have this data in one place. They wrote to all the 17 zones, who wrote to all the divisions(I was copied in all this communication!). Some divisions gave me hand-complied information. One zone asked for Rs 16000 for the photocopying charges. One proactive station manager called me to get clarity on the information being sought! A few divisions out-rightly refused citing a previous CIC ruling. What I asked for is perhaps a little different from your query(which is even more interesting). But my guess is - there doesn't seem to be such centralised information with the railway board. The zones seem to have their own independent systems with varying level of automation. Regards, Rajesh On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Srinivasan Ramani <srinivasan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aashu, > > An easier (but possibly less accurate) way is to extract the data from > indiarailinfo.com which provides a field on "average train time delays" > for each and every train on its website. > > I suspect the website already uses a number of crawlers (on a quasi-legal > basis, I suppose, considering the site hasn't revealed its owners/ admins > and has anonymised/scrambled its whois information) from Indian Railways. > > Best, > Srini > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Aashish Gupta <aash...@riceinstitute.org > > wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Has someone tried to scrap railway delays from the ntes website before? >> Is it possible to do? I don't know anything about the field, but given so >> much differences in delays between trains for rich people (rajdhani, >> duronto, shatabdi) and trains which poor people use, this is something that >> the datameet community should be interested in showing, but has someone >> tried to do that? I am thinking of doing this, but I don't mind someone >> else doing it. >> >> The way I was thinking of doing it, given my non-technical but social >> sciencey background was to randomly select about 100 trains and see delay >> differences between different types of trains. Is there a better way? Is >> someone willing to help or work together with me and nikhil? >> >> Let me know. >> >> Thanks, >> Aashish >> >> -- >> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
