The optimised timetable development system for railway planning and
near real time decision support.
The SCHEDULEMISER
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system provides rail planners and dispatchers with a tool that
prepares an optimised timetable in real time, based on an input
railway geography and track layout, and an input train plan.
SCHEDULEMISER can also measure and display the use to which
sectional line capacity is consumed by an input train plan. This
capacity analysis can be used in conjunction with the optimisation
results to plan infrastructure improvements.
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Train Planning Screen
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Product Features:
- Optimised feasible timetables and trains, based on a set of
timetable quality attributes for given infrastructure.
- Quick analysis of the effects of changes to trains, track
configuration and infrastructure availability such as TSRs,
possession, curfews and outages.
- Monthly, daily and dispatch timetables on demand.
Benefits:
- Reduces delays in service by minimising the delays in meets and
crosses through the timetable.
- Provides reliability and robustness of service by ensuring that all
timetables are efficiently resourced.
- Better train plans result in increased revenue and lower costs.
Methodology:
| SCHEDULEMISER Processing Block Diagram
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The complete SCHEDULEMISER system is made up of several parts. The
first allows the train planner to configure the system assets with
constraining business rules to reflect the network to be simulated.
These rules then allow a set of input train requirements to be
created.
The Train Planner then loads these new or existing train
requirement records and network configuration files into the
SCHEDULEMISER tool. This patented search engine takes the network
configuration and train requirement files and produces a series of
feasible timetables. The search is run until the output statistics
show that an optimised solution has been found.
The resulting timetable can be saved and/or a train graph of the
timetable can be plotted against the timetable output file. Other
outputs can be created as required.
Powerful and New Optimisation:
SCHEDULEMISER incorporates a 'next generation' optimisation
technique developed by the University of South Australia and TMG
with the support of the Cooperative Research Centre for Railway
Engineering and Technology (Rail CRC).
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Graphical line capacity display showing the train plan use (blue)
compared with section capacity (red), and the percentage sectional
use (green)
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