BOOSTING TRANSPORT TO THE SIMULATION AGE
We enhance transport management
systems through simulation
& optimization
systems through simulation
& optimization
Customization of Operation Plan
RailWorks service design tools manage the traffic of Flowitems for the creation of the operating plan. RailWorks can imports customer demand as traffic information, which is either based on historical or forecasted data. The data fields for each railroad’s traffic inputs will vary and RailWorks could be set to work with clients to analyze and standardize the flow of information needed for planning.
Optimization
An optimized Flowitem plan can improve network fluidity, decrease terminal dwell, and improve train speed by minimizing handling, reducing train stops, and improving yard utilization. RailWorks will optimize your operation plan and deliver the best results based on what you need.
Performance Enhancement
The RailWorks optimizer uses attributes such as the traffic type and origin/destination, network, switching capacity, and physical layout of yard tracks to design the Flowitem and flow the traffic over the system. The objective function of the optimizer is to minimize the overall cost of classification, reduce unnecessary car handling and ease yard congestion.
Significant Results
Based on the optimized Flowitem and train schedule, RailWorks will optimize the assignment of the Flowitem to the trains, taking into account capacities (length and weight), and the service commitments for the traffic. The system will produce trip plans that yield the best transit times with minimal handlings.
IT'S FEATURES INCLUDES:
TRAIN SCHEDULING
With RailWorks, a train is defined as a sequence of scheduled train legs, each departing from a specified yard at a specified departure time and arriving at another specified yard at a specified arrival time. Once the flowitems are assigned to trains, the user refines how the trains will pick up or set out the flowitems by analyzing and refining each flowitem’s “route” from its origin to its destination. A flowitems route is made up of a one or more train routes.
LOCOMOTIVE OPTIMIZATION
The system allows users to develop a Locomotive Plan corresponding to an operating plan. Locomotive planning is the process of determining how a fleet of locomotives will be deployed to power trains in a train schedule and meet other locomotive demands, such as light engine moves and yard switching. It supports both automated and manual development of a Locomotive Plan. In either case, the system allows you to understand your critical rolling stock assets; drive utilization, predict maintenance needs, and minimize fuel costs.
INTEGRATED DATABASE AND REFERENCE INFORMATION
RailWorks can be used as an integrated and cloud planning platform, which means that traffic, flowitems, trains, locomotive, railcars, crews and detailed routing are part of one plan. This allows the user to quickly understand interdependencies between assets, for example to quickly identify that there are insufficient locomotives to run a set of trains or that a train plan cannot be crewed based on its dwell locations. Additionally, a planner can quickly run “what if” analyses on changes in traffic volume and composition, or changes to asset availability or network constraints considering failures and maintenance plans.
The scenario sets of experiments and the resultant individual plans are managed by the user. This means that scenarios and plans can be imported and exported and plans can be copied. The integrated database also manages the system security and the external data inputs and outputs, usually from the railroad’s databases. For example, train schedule data can be imported into FlexSim and RailWorks, the locomotive deployment optimized, and the results exported to the railroad’s Train Management System (TMS) for operations or even our development team can set a real-time integration.
