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Introduction
Eicher Goodearth Limited is the holding company of the Eicher Group of companies with interests in the manufacture of Commercial Vehicles, Motorcycles, Tractors, Automotive Components, International Trading and Management Consulting Services.

With the release of the highly acclaimed Eicher City Map of Delhi in Dec ’95, Eicher Goodearth Limited re-defined Indian standards in map making by including details such as house numbers, locations of taxi stands, public utility offices such as electricity and water complaint offices. Details such as building names, roads, localities and landmark points, are also included.

Encouraged by the response to the Eicher City Map of Delhi, the group conducted similar digital mapping using state-of-the-art techniques and ground verification to publish map books for the other Indian metros, with due approvals from the Ministry of Defence.

The group formalised its GIS & Digital Cartography business in 2001 with approval from the Ministry of Defence to commercially licence the Eicher digital map data of Delhi.

Background
The Transport Department of the Government of NCT of Delhi had contracted Eicher to set up a GIS system in order to:

• Enable planning of public transportation on a GIS base.
• Provide an information base to users.

Execution of the Project
The execution of the project was divided into phases:

• Information consolidation onto a GIS base
• Customisation of planning tools
• Applications of the GIS base for commuter benefit

Information Consolidation
Under the auspices of the Transport Department, key officials of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) were a part of the core team, which executed the project. Bus stops with their attribute details were mapped by Eicher personnel onto the Eicher GIS map of Delhi.


Figure 1 depicts DTC bus routes and bus stops on the GIS map of Delhi for planning purposes
With access to information from DTC core team members and their support personnel and with reference to earlier studies conducted by a consulting organisation of repute, the team set about the task of transferring DTC bus routes in a GIS format onto the Eicher GIS.

Database tables containing the attribute information of bus stops and bus routes were then linked to the respective points in order to support querying.



Customisation of planning tools
With the consolidation of all pertinent information, Eicher then customised standard applications to include a support tool for the planning department of bus routes, wherein alternative routes between pre-selected points (bus terminals) could be obtained.

An MIS from the same enables quicker decision making based on the actual route that would be traversed and factors in the number of bus-stops serviced along the various routing options.

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