Data Exchange Design in Thai Rail Operations

The rail operations in Thailand have been developing for many decades. The most important parts of rail transport development are the exchange of the operating data. This study is focused on the data exchange standards in rail operations, the designing of the data exchange systems, and the developing of a prototype web-based application for exchange data. The data exchange technique in this study called RailML (Railway Markup Language). RailML is an open-source, XMLbased data format for data interoperability of railway applications. It uses a very simple and flexible format that used to describe railway-related data. The design of the data exchange system is using a responsive design which makes the rail data exchange system render well on a variety of devices and windows sizes. The result of this study is the data exchange standard specification for rail operations in Thailand based-on RailML, which include the data exchange format and the guideline in designing of a prototype rail data exchange system.