PIB News Update:Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal has informed that Real-time Train Information System (RTIS) project is being executed by Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), which is an Information Technology arm of the Ministry of Railways, in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is primarily used for acquisition of train movement data, including that of arrival, departure, run-through timings at the stations in route. As the RTIS devices have been installed in locomotives, the trains hauled by such locomotives get tracked through this system. The zone-wise details of installation of RTIS device in the passenger and goods train locomotives till 20.11.2019, are as under:
| Zone | Number of Passenger Locomotives | Number of Goods Locomotives |
| Central Railway | 103 | 217 |
| East Coast Railway | 53 | 140 |
| East Central Railway | 89 | 76 |
| Eastern Railway | 130 | 28 |
| North Central Railway | 44 | 71 |
| Northern Railway | 268 | 61 |
| South Central Railway | 146 | 127 |
| South East Central Railway | 50 | 14 |
| South Eastern Railway | 121 | 157 |
| Southern Railway | 232 | 48 |
| West Central Railway | 181 | 116 |
| Western Railway | 177 | 00 |
| Total | 1594 | 1055 |
Additional funds for installation of RTIS system in 6000 more locomotives (both passenger and goods) have been sanctioned in 2019.
The automatic acquisition of the train running data by the RTIS system helps in improving the efficiency of train control, dissemination of accurate train running information to the passengers and freight customers, and emergency messaging between locomotive and control centre.