Innovation – Indian Railway Coach

Introduction :

In response to Hon’ble Prime Minister’s clarion call for innovation in Indian Railways under
the Navrachna Initiative, Indian Railways has decided to conduct a public competition for
‘Increasing Passenger Carrying Capacity of Coaches of Indian Railways’.
Purpose / Objective of Innovation Challenge :

THE CENTRAL IDEA IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF COACH LAYOUT OF NON-AC 3-TIER ICF
DESIGN SLEEPER COACH OF ICF DESIGN FOR INCREASING PASSENGER CARRYING CAPACITY.

Presently, Indian Railways (IR) Non-AC 3-Tier Sleeper Coach have a design of
coach layout which was developed considering combined requirements of
passengers in different category of trains. These passenger coaches are in service
in different type of trains (overnight, long distance mail/express) and are fitted with
the vestibules at each coach end and two body side entrance doors aside. Two
Emergency exit windows aside are also provided.
Detail Description of Innovation Challenge :
The Challenge is designed as an online competition for submission of original innovative
technological solution for 'Increasing Passenger Carrying Capacity of Coaches of Indian
Railways'. The challenge invites ideas to modify the existing layout design of Non-AC 3-Tier
ICF design Sleeper Coach of ICF design in such a way that passenger carrying capacity is
enhanced with out compromising existing level of ergonomic comfort and passenger
amenities.

The Challenge aims to encourage creation of innovative, easy to use designs and solutions
that can permit a higher number of Passengers with out infringing the Passenger's travel
comfort.
Boundary Conditions :
• The proposed solution should consider comfort level and ease of movement during
normal operation as well as emergency evacuation.
• Generally, coach dimensions are in conformance to Diagram-1D of Indian Railway
Schedule of Dimensions (IRSOD) followed for Indian Railways coach design.
• For ergonomics design practice, Indian Anthropometric Dimensions published by
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad can be referred. However, adequacy of
information contained in the above publication should be examined prior to use.
Railway Board Expectations from the Design :

• Retrofit ability.
• Ease of use
• Maintainability
• Adherence to presently provided overall dimensions and space envelope, under all
circumstances
• Ruggedness to Withstand repeated rough usage with people and heavy luggage and
vibrations due to dynamic forces up to a level of 3G
• Able to cater to all genders and ethnic groups
• Aesthetically pleasing and passenger friendly
Entry Submission Fields – Mandatory :

The participants shall be required to submit their entries in the fields provided in the Entry
Submission forms limited to the number of words prescribed for the fields as under:

1. Abstract of the Proposed Innovation, in about 2000 characters.

2. System of Working of the Proposed Innovation, limited to 8000 characters. Drawings, if necessary,
can be attached as PDF, but should not exceed 8 MB in size.
3. Elaboration on utility to passengers and how the innovative concept/ design enhance the
passenger experience in about 1200 characters.
4. Feasibility of Implementation of the proposed innovation and integration with the existing
infrastructure and new setup including retro-fitments and modifications required should be
explained in about 1200 characters.
5. Explain how the existing infrastructure is integrated with the proposed Innovation in about 2000
characters.
6. Originality of the Proposed Innovation to explain how the proposed Innovation is an original idea in
about 1200 characters.
7. Cost effectiveness of proposed design for setup and operation (to include initial cost, operating
cost, life cycle costing) to be explained in about 1600 characters.
8. Maintainability of the proposed design explaining its ruggedness, ease of maintenance and swift
replacement of spares to be explained in about 1200 characters.
9. Possible constraints anticipated in deployment to be explained in about 1200 characters.
Eligibility Criteria :

• The Challenge is open to Individuals and Companies/ Institutions.

• In case of Companies, majority of Team Members/ Shareholders are required to be
Indian Resident Nationals.
• All Participating Individuals are required to be Indian Resident Nationals.
• Participants (Individual/ or in case of teams, the team leader) are required to be at least
18 years of age as on 1/12/2016 .
• The following persons and their immediate relatives can not participate in the Challenge:
a) An employee of Indian Railways directly involved in execution and evaluation of
the Challenge.
b) A member or employee of knowledge cum execution partner / Organizer.
c) A member of the Evaluation panel, Experts and Jury for the Challenge.
General Guidelines :

• The write up should either be submitted in Hindi or English.

• In case submission is in any other language, it must be accompanied with translations in
either Hindi or English.
• It could be an individual project or a team project. However, in case of team, total team
members, including the team leader, should not exceed six.
• No reference of the identity of the person(s) submitting should be made in the proposal.
If done so, it shall debar the entry from consideration.
• It is strongly advised not to wait till the closure time for submission of entries. Railways
shall not be responsible for late/ non receipt of entries on account of server errors/
traffic.
• The contestants may be asked to present/ elaborate their proposed solution to an
appropriate jury.
• Railways may decide to associate with the proposer for further development of the
proposed Concept/ design.
• The decision of the Evaluation Panel and Jury will be final. No communication will be
entered into with any person in relation to any decision of the panel or process.
• Unsuccessful entries shall be intimated through email and Ministry of Railways shall not
have any right over the same.
Evaluation Criteria :

SN Evaluation Criterion Weightage

1 Enhancement of Passenger Carrying 30
Capacity
2 Feasibility of Implementation 25
3 Compliance of Specified Boundary 15
Conditions
4 Innovation Originality 15
5 Cost Effectiveness 05
6 Maintainability 05
7 Quality of Presentation 05
TOTAL 100
Evaluation System :

The evaluation of Entries shall be carried out in following three stages, mentioned below:

Stage Evaluation Results

1st All Entries to be evaluated to shortlist approximately 30 entries,
through double blind review
2nd The 30 shortlisted entries to be further evaluated by an Expert
panel for selecting 10 most promising ideas
Final The 10 ideas selected in Stage II shall be presented to
Innovation Committee formed by Ministry for consideration of
Awards
LAYOUT DESIGN OF EXISTING NON-AC 3-TIER SLEEPER COACH OF ICF DESIGN
TO CSC 1705:
DETAILS OF MAXIMUM MOVING DIMENSIONS [DIAGRAM 1D (EDO/T-2202)]:
STANDARD DIMENSIONS AT STATIONS [DIAGRAM NO.2 OF IRSOD]:
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