The 2010 International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and other Transit Systems (COMPRAIL) is a meeting forum for engineers, planners, designers, manufacturers and operators, to discuss how they can benefit from the latest developments in the area.

The conference aims to update the use of computer-based techniques, promoting their general awareness throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems.

Abstract - “Case Studies in planning crew members”
CREWS is a software product for planning and managing the work of rail-staff, that provides solutions to one of the core problems that railway companies face today – effective management of resources.
This paper reports some results of a long-term development work in the application of both Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research techniques to planning and managing of staff (drivers, guards, and station personnel).
The paper presents case studies emerging from the application of CREWS both to railway and to subway companies. CREWS has grown to be a strong and mature product that provides decision-support in the task of planning the daily work of more than 20,000 staff members across Europe.
CREWS-based systems are in routine use in the Dutch Railways, the Norwegian State Railways, the Finnish Railways, the Danish State Railways, the Suburban trains of Copenhagen, and the London Underground.

About COMPRAIL
The 12^th International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and other Transit Systems (COMPRAIL 2010) will be held in Beijing. This is the latest in the very successful series of meetings starting in Frankfurt in 1987 and followed in Rome (1990), Washington (1992), Madrid (1994), Berlin (1996), Lisbon (1998), Bologna (2000), Lemnos (2002), Dresden (2004), Prague (2006) and Toledo (2008). Organized by the Wessex Institute of Technology, this year’s event is sponsored by Beijing Jiaotong University, China.
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