Hyderabad, Aug. 6 -- South Central Railway (SCR) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay on Thursday, August 6, to develop a software tool that can analyse large volumes of railway signalling data and help ease congestion at junctions and yards across the network.

IIT Bombay has been working on the problem for the past two years, drawing on yard diagrams, train speed and length data, acceleration characteristics, interlocking records and historical data logger information, along with scenario simulation tools. The MoU formalises this existing partnership, a press release said.

Tool to identify bottlenecks

Under the agreement, IIT Bombay will undertake a pilot project to build a so...