Case Study
Efficient Planning And Dispatching With Growing Operating Capacity
IVU.rail at NEB OVERVIEW Employees 215 engine drivers and service attendants Vehicles 10 (by 12/2015: 33) railcars Transport services 1.72 million (by 12/2015: 5.7 million) train kilometres per year Operations Regional rail services Objectives Integrated planning of rail services and, in particular, staff deployment with a single system Planning of more operating capacity with the same number of planners/ dispatcher Special features Use of the employee portal IVU products IVU.timetable, IVU.run, IVU.duty, IVU.vehicle, IVU.crew, IVU.pad INITIAL SITUATION Lines increase from 2 to 10, and railcars from 10 to 33 – Niederbarnim Railways (NEB) triples its operating capacity in just 3 years. This presents new challenges for the plan- ners and dispatchers at NEB: a larger vehi- cle fl