Capabilities
We work on assignments for clients who are looking to improve the rail industry's effectiveness and efficiency in what it provides for its customers, funders and stakeholders.
More specifically, we work in the following areas:
- Demand Forecasting, using MOIRA™
- Capacity planning and capacity management
- Timetable development, either recasts or changes to existing, using CMS™, RailSys™ or spreadsheets
- Rolling stock planning, using DISPO™
- Train crew diagramming, using TRACS™
- Rostering
- Train performance assessment (including using RailSys™ to generate SRTs - running times)
- Timetable performance modelling, primarily using RailSys™
- Timetable, infrastructure and performance Data Management, using a number of tools developed in-house
Applications
RailSys™
RWA Rail most often uses RailSys™, the market leading modelling and simulation package from Rail Management Consultants of Hanover, Germany (
http://www.rmcon.de). RailSys™ is Industry standard and mandated by Network Rail.
TRACS™
For train crew diagramming, RWA Rail uses TRACS™, the market leading optimisation package from TRACSIS (
http://www.tracsis.com)
Dispo™
Dispo™, from IVE in Hanover, Germany is used for Rolling Stock diagramming.
CMS Timetables™
DelaRail's CMS Timetables™ is a timetable planning tool which enables users to quickly create timetables either from scratch or by copying trains from other timetables and then editing them.
RWA Roster Builder
We have our own bespoke roster building tool, which we have developed to enable us to respond to clients who need efficient rosters creating either as an input to franchise bids or to make cost savings.
RWA Rail Tools
We have built a suite of sophisticated tools to supplement and link together the proprietary software that we use. These tools enhance the speed and effectiveness of our train planning work.
