Transform Rail Operations Through Efficient Planning and Optimization
DELMIA Quintiq Rail-Fleet-Personnel/Crew Planning aims to build a reliable service portfolio, fleet and personnel crew by offering comprehensive solutions for rail freight planners, rail passenger planners and infrastructure managers.
Rail Freight Operations helps freight planners serve markets involving bulk cargo and intermodal transport. While increasing train utilization and operational flexibility, they keep costs under control by managing complex demands from infrastructure managers, terminal operators and customers.
The Rail Passenger Service solution helps passenger service planners raise service quality and reduce operational costs by improving safety, passenger and employee satisfaction.
Rail Infrastructure Management gives infrastructure managers the capability to maximize network utilization by taking into account their entire inventory, project requirements, rules and constraints. This enables them to make accurate and financially sustainable decisions for operations, maintenance and growth.
Key Benefits
- Delivers end-to-end integrated multi-disciplinary planning approaches: Reduces problem complexity by eliminating siloed decision-making. Plans the network, services, rolling stock plan and crew schedules.
- Covers the entire planning horizon: Provides all capabilities from tactical (long-term) operations through to the day of operation (short-term). Respond in real time to unplanned events to minimize the impact of disruptions. Explore the potential profitability of investing in new routes and rolling stock, and the impact of new regulations and changing demographics.
- Creates demand-driven service schedules: Creates timetabled or demand-driven services that balance customer satisfaction and efficiency by taking network maintenance and unplanned disruptions into account. Resolves service conflicts using advanced “conflict detection” functions.
- Creates efficient rolling stock plans: Increases rolling stock utilization, reduces empty movements and delivers a robust rolling stock plan that takes rolling stock balancing, maintenance and availability into account.
- Delivers comprehensive crew schedules: Creates crew schedules by combining drivers' skills, route knowledge, home base and personal preferences. Manage the impact of dynamic changes in timetable and rolling stock plans and meet employee expectations. Handle complex work rules and skill requirements.
