Graphical interface for Railway
Development of an advanced graphical interface tool which aims to provide real-time information on the running trains as well as train resources (such as drivers, managers, units) to provide elements for decision making across the whole train operation by consuming data from external sources across the company and providing a summarized and optimized view of the current operation.
The Challenge
- Team management: there was a huge turnaround on the team. From the beginning of the project 24 people have already been let go (either by technical or behavioral issues) which caused the project to lack quality and stability.
- Data quality: the system consumes data from several data sources, whether inside the company and out. Specially for the ones consumed from within the company, there were several issues related to data quality, which in turn, according to the source system owners, was related to the source systems they were consuming data from. Bottom line, our system had to accommodate scope from other teams in order to minimize the effects of data consumption issues.
- Scope: since the project goal is to provide information to end-users in different scenarios and for several areas, most of the time the requirements are not clear and sometimes even contradictory.
- Architecture: Although there is a company wide architecture team to look after the system integrations and interlocks, most of the time this work was done by our team while the architecture team performs the gatekeeper role. That prevents our team from benefiting from new technologies and, sometimes, even market standard practices.

Tecnologies
Technologies on the Front End:
- React
- Live Maps
Technologies on the Backend:
- .Net on the Microservices
- Microsoft Azure for the cloud
The Outcome
“The team was able to successfully deploy and get the user acceptance in a project that was attempting to do so for, at least, three years. Although it was the initial MVP, there are already three sequential releases ready to go live at this point and a fourth being prepared with good chances of being deployed by the end of this year.”

Hiram
Our .NET Expert
10 years of experience in the sector
3 years at Raftech