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Summary of Surface Transportation: MULTIRAIL™ PASSENGER RAIL PLANNING SOLUTIONS

Challenges in Passenger Rail Planning

Passenger rail operations face increasing complexity due to growing demand, including rush-hour, half-route, express, and reverse-rush services. Key issues involve diverse legacy equipment, stringent crew hours-of-service rules, rise in fatigue concerns, need for interdepartmental and operator collaboration, and escalating operational costs. Planners must manage sophisticated planning in-house to handle multi-day consist cycles, schedule deviations, and various performance metrics.

MultiRail PAX: Integrated Software Solution

MultiRail PAX is an advanced software tool developed by Oliver Wyman to streamline passenger rail service planning. It addresses these challenges through automation and integration, offering features that boost efficiency and reduce costs across intercity, commuter, metro, and long-distance rail services.

Key Features and Strategies

• Automatic Validation: Provides immediate feedback on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as crew utilization, equipment cycles, and schedule validity, ensuring robust plan integrity.
• Asset Optimization: Generates alternative timetables and schedules automatically based on train plans, optimizing equipment cycles and crew coverage to save time and support decision-making.
• Contingency Management: Allows planners to prepare for schedule disruptions by creating "white space" and padding, minimizing impacts from unplanned events.
• Comprehensive Analysis: Offers multiple perspectives (train, equipment, crew) through embedded analytics and interactive tools, enabling in-depth evaluations.
• Integrated Work Environment: Enables simultaneous collaboration among planners, with a central database and audit trail for data security. Users can generate and test plans in a safe environment before promotion to production.
• Reusability and Efficiency: Supports reusing approved plans for updates and simple modifications, speeding up development for new services or tests. New planners can be trained quickly using intuitive tools.
• Data Integration: Feeds plans seamlessly to operational systems like train control, PTC, and external platforms (e.g., Google Transit), reducing manual processes and improving data accessibility.

Benefits and Implementation

MultiRail PAX helps rail operators achieve greater operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance collaboration. It is customizable and widely used by leading railroads globally, as part of Oliver Wyman's expertise in transportation software.

Oliver Wyman, a global consulting leader, developed this solution to support rail practices with strategic and operational planning, based on decades of experience in the industry.