PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF EQUIPMENT

 FLEET Data Sheet

Overview   

FLEET is based on the widely known and tested product CREWS, the leading European software for crew planning and management in railway and metro companies.
FLEET provides solutions to the core problem that transportation companies face today – effective planning and management of the equipment.

This product addresses, in an integrated way, all phases of the planning and management process – long-term planning, short-term planning, real-time management, and controlling the work done. It enables quick and efficient planning and management of equipment, provides fast responses to train and equipment changes, minimises equipment-related train disruptions, and provides evaluation of strategic options.

FLEET considers two types of realities concerning vehicles used by the transportation companies:

• airline and bus companies that operate mono-vehicles, where only one vehicle is provided to carry out a service
• railway companies that operate multi-vehicles, where it is possible to connect two or more vehicles to carry out a service.

The software allows the creation of routings considering infrastructure limitations and the forecast of passengers or cargo along the timetable services. It allows the rostering of routings, balancing vehicles along the week and taking in account maintenance needs.

At any stage of the process, the integration of a very powerful optimiser with the possibility of manual intervention provides an un-precedent power and flexibility that are unmatched by any other system in the market.

The modularity of FLEET enables transportation companies to introduce different components in their process at their own pace.
 
Aside from being powerful, FLEET-based solutions can be fully customised to the reality of each individual company.


Main features

• Covers, in an integrated way, the continuum of phases in the planning and management process

• Provides continuity of data across planning phases, making sure that data are complete and consistent

• Prepared to handle the full complexity of the planning and management processes in a way that is simple to develop, maintain, and change

• Provides similar look and feel across all components, easing the need for user training

• Allows stepwise expansion, avoiding “big-bang” introduction of a new system

• Combines a state-of-the-art optimiser with the full flexibility of manual operations

• Provides decision-support, with full interaction between the user and the system

• The unmatched optimiser guarantees significant savings, while the manual operations provide full flexibility to handle exceptions or preferences

• Intuitive graphical interface integrates manual and automatic operations

• Prepared to handle the changes in data and in rules that occur, flagging any conflicts that result from the change

• User interface easy to work with and intuitive. It performs an active role in the planning process providing context sensitive and dynamic information to support the user’s decisions

• Supports client’s native language

• Enables access to all stored information

• Context sensitive on-line help

• Zoom in / out in the windows to see data with more / less detail

• Provides powerful simulations capabilities

• Prepared to be fully integrated with existing systems using standard protocols and data interfaces

• Interconnectable with ONTIME (timetable) and CREWS (staff) software 

Modules

• Long-term Planner (produces duties)

• Allocator (allocates equipment units to the lines of the cyclic roster)

• Short-term Planner (handles planned changes to the regular work, special days, engineering work, unavailability of equipment)

• Real-time Dispatcher (monitors what is happening during the day of operation and provides decision-support to deal with unexpected events)

• Work Recorder (computes the work that has been done and prepares information to be supplied to outside systems)

• Long-term Data Manager, Short-term Data Manager (communicates with outside systems, handles changes, makes sure that data is consistent and complete)