Title :
Strategic crew planning tool in railroad: A discrete event simulation
Author :
Chahar, Kiran ; Cheng, Clark ; Pranoto, Yudi
Author_Institution :
Norfolk Southern Corp., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
Norfolk Southern (NS) has developed a strategic crew planning tool to evaluate the impacts of crew rules changes and train service changes on crew utilization and train on-time performance. This tool has three major components, a discrete event simulator, a crew deadheading engine, and a crew pool size analyzer. A Flash based animation and reporting user interface helps users identify bottlenecks in specific areas of the rail network. This tool is integrated into a suite of planning tools used in NS. The impact of crew mark off rates on train performance is discussed in a case study.
Keywords :
computer animation; discrete event simulation; personnel; planning; railway engineering; user interfaces; Flash based animation; Norfolk Southern; crew deadheading engine; crew pool size analyzer; crew rules changes; crew utilization; discrete event simulation; impact evaluation; rail network; railroad; reporting user interface; strategic crew planning tool; train performance; train service changes; Availability; Business; Discrete event simulation; Engines; Mathematical model; Schedules;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2011 Winter
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2108-3
Electronic_ISBN :
0891-7736
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2011.6148062
