NEW DELHI: To deal with the upcoming Chhath rush, the railways is using real-time heat-mapping of 35 major stations to monitor heavy passenger movement, rushing standby unreserved trains close to these stations to clear the surge of travellers and creating holding areas for crowd control. These measures are based on passenger data from the festive seasons of the past two years, including this Diwali. In a massive operation, the national transporter is set to run around 13,000 special services before and after the biggest festival of Bihar — nearly double than the number of trains operated last year — to ferry an estimated more than 2.5 crore passengers, similar to the population of Australia. Special trains are in addition to normal trains that the railways operates. Most of these tr

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