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14/12/2009 Successful Timetable Change with RailOpt mehr 25/11/2009 Innovations: RailOpt Release 3.4 mehr 12/11/2009 Qnamic Inc. on display on Tele M1 mehr 02/11/2009 Qnamic Inc. and ESPRiT with new line accounting at suissetraffic mehr 26/10/2009 Qnamic Inc. present at suissetraffic with RailOpt DIS mehr 09/10/2009 Qnamic preannounces the ProductivityBooster_2020 mehr 15/09/2009 RailOpt module sheets offer detailed product information mehr 21/07/2009 FHNW Project at Qnamic mehr 14/07/2009 Advanced Planning of Physical Vehicles at SJ AB mehr 19/06/2009 Focus on Usability in RailOpt Release 3.3 mehr 15/06/2009 Contract with SOB AG signed at amazing heights mehr 05/06/2009 New Line Calculation for Cost Transparency at BLS AG mehr 07/05/2009 SOB expands RailOpt Passenger with RailOpt DIS mehr 28/04/2009 Qnamic Inc. sponsors hill running through local Devil’s Gorge mehr 15/04/2009 RailOpt-Suite with extended structure mehr 18/03/2009 Swiss Public Transport Journalists experience RailOpt at SOB mehr 16/03/2009 Qnamic sponsors SVSE Swiss Championship mehr 26/02/2009 RailOpt Update for Qnamic Customers mehr 15/01/2009 SOB: Now dispatching 24x7 mehr 19/12/2008 Annual Review 2008 of BLS Inc. 18/12/2008 Qnamic wishes a Merry Christmas mehr 15/12/2008 Flawless timetable introduction at BLS Inc. mehr 28/11/2008 Innovation project with Qnamic Inc. mehr 24/11/2008 RailOpt live at CFL mehr 20/11/2008 Successful RailOpt-Release 3.2 mehr 03/10/2008 SJ AB visits BLS Inc. mehr 25/09/2008 Guest Presentation: SAP at the InnoTrans08 mehr 25/09/2008 BLS Presentation at InnoTrans mehr 24/09/2008 Scandinavian Brunch at the InnoTrans08 mehr 23/09/2008 Qnamic Inc. at Record-setting InnoTrans08 mehr	19/12/2008 Annual Review 2008 of BLS Inc. A successful year ends for BLS. The factors that made this year special are also the advances made with the software RailOpt: To ease the planners’ life, the RailOpt Superuser-Organisation was created. This means that planners do not have to go to RailOpt Administration with everyday problems. It is the superuser’s task to support users in their daily work, perform release tests and coordinate new demands. Until the Release 3.2, short-term planning in RailOpt was done using the “Preparation” and “Short-Term Planning” Agents for capacity reasons. This meant that an additional transfer was necessary, and not the entire short-term period could be loaded and edited in short-term planning. With the change, it is possible to load up to 42 days in a single agent, enabling BLS to perform all short-term changes in the Short-Term Planning agent. Since the timetable change on 14.12.2008, all of BLS’s train drivers receive, in addition to the shift plan, the run sequences including low speed areas and additional information. The drivers receive these up-to-date sheets daily. The distribution of annual shift plans was dropped due to this. The documents are distributed to drivers in pdf-format using a web application. Since not every driver is qualified for every type of locomotive, it is important to make sure that shifts assigned to drivers contain only the types of locomotives the driver has qualifications for. This validation mechanism is automatically performed by RailOpt. The planner immediately sees missing qualifications and can alter the shift assignment. While assigning services to personnel, there are 43 work-time rules that need to be considered. These rules are checked in all RailOpt Agents, which ensures that planners can see work-time rule violations and respond in time. So the customers at stations can see, which wagon is at which location (e.g. 1st class), the wagon sequence must already be considered during planning. This functionality is now included in RailOpt. All infrastructure systems that require data concerning trains and their composition, gather the data from KompoEVU. With RailOpt, BLS has the comfortable possibility of redirecting the data directly from the system via KompoEVU to the infrastructure system. This, for instance, informs customers about the composition of trains or the system I-Prix receives the necessary information for route price calculations. Based on the planning process for rolling stock and drivers, the planning for cleaning and on-board personnel is also performed. In all personnel categories, work-time rules are constantly evaluated. Due to the integration of the two new personnel areas in RailOpt, all relevant activities necessary for a train run can be planned and tracked using one system. With all these developments in 2008, decisive steps have been taken to make RailOpt an integrated planning system for train operating companies. Marcel Baumgartner RailOpt project leader BLS Inc.

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