Products

Resource Scheduling and Management Solutions for Rail & Metro

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Each of SISCOG Suite products — ONTIME, FLEET, RAILNODE and CREWS — is composed of several independent but fully integrated modules that address the whole resource scheduling and management cycle in rail and metro operators.

These modular, flexible and integrated solutions interface easily with other systems, allowing for long-term scheduling to real-time dispatching and post operation analysis.

With powerful optimisation capabilities, you can expect significant reductions in costs and scheduling time, benefit from the possibility of developing what-if scenarios, quick and easily recover from disruptions, schedule from scratch and reschedule an existing schedule when reality changes.

Available with multiple decision-support levels - manual, semi-automatic and automatic - and a web & mobile-based interaction.

Extensive reporting is also possible, including decisive key performance indicators and other statistics to assess performance.

On-premises or in the cloud solutions.

 

To guarantee an optimised solution, all products are standard but customisable to the reality and needs of each individual rail or metro company, while including significant parameterisation capabilities.

SISCOG Products

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Creation and Management of Timetables

ONTIME is a standard decision-support product that creates and manages optimised timetables, with the creation of services and network allocation over time, considering passenger demand, and operational constraints (for example, network capacity).

ONTIME produces annual timetables down to day-to-day adjustments due to special events, such as holidays, large-scale events, and track engineering work.

ONTIME guarantees all of this, and more.

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Scheduling and Management of Vehicles

FLEET is a standard decision-support product that creates and manages optimised vehicle schedules, considering expected passenger demand figures, timetables, network, vehicle specifications and needs, and operational constraints/rules.

FLEET produces long-term balanced routings or cyclic rosters, short-term calendar schedules, handles scheduled vehicle inspections, maintenance and other services, and provides decision support during the day of operation. In the calendar schedule, vehicles can be allocated to balanced routings that follow either irregular patterns or regular rotation patterns based on cyclic rosters.

FLEET guarantees all of this, and more.

Railnode

Scheduling and Management of Local Resources

RAILNODE is a standard decision-support product that creates and manages optimised local resources schedules, considering the local network infrastructure, train timetables, train compositions and local tasks that may require vehicle movements (e.g. maintenance tasks).

RAILNODE produces schedules for local movements (in stations, parks, or shunting yards) and the interaction with ONTIME and FLEET (timetabling and vehicle scheduling products) allows the adjustment of macro scheduling to achieve a better overall schedule.

RAILNODE guarantees all of this, and more.

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Scheduling and Management of Staff

CREWS is an award-winning standard decision-support product that creates and manages optimised staff schedules, including both on-board and local staff, considering timetables and vehicle schedules, staff skills and preferences, labour and operational constraints / rules. 

CREWS produces long-term duties and cyclic rosters, short-term calendar schedules, and provides decision support during the day of operation. In the short-term calendar schedule, staff can be allocated to duties that follow either irregular patterns (e.g. according to staff preferences) or regular rotation patterns based on the cyclic rosters.

CREWS guarantees all of this, and more.

Empowering the user

We understand how important it is for a scheduler or dispatcher to feel supported during the scheduling or dispatching process and control the output of his work.

So we provide multilevel decision support in our products, where the user may schedule manual, semi-automatic or automatically, benefiting from very intuitive graphical user interfaces (GUI) and several usability features.

By using the manual mode, our product acts as a computer-aided graphical scheduling tool signalling violations. With the semi-automatic mode the product suggests different alternatives. With the automatic mode an optimised solution is presented, either using default parameters or previously inserted restrictions and goals. The process may start in any mode and resort to any mode at any time.

Empowering the user
Powerful optimisation  at your fingertips
Powerful optimisation at your fingertips
  • Optimisers combine the use of Artificial Intelligence and Operational Research techniques
  • Obtain optimised solutions for large and very large scheduling  and rescheduling problems
  • Optimise multiple (and sometimes conflicting) goals simultaneously

Quality & Innovation

Quality and Innovation behind the SISCOG Suite

The SISCOG Suite is developed under a robust Quality and Innovation framework, supported by ongoing R&D and close collaboration with clients. Our Integrated Management System follows ISO 9001 and ISO 56001, ensuring continuous improvement across all products.

Innovation is driven by real operational needs, making every enhancement directly relevant to transport operators.

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Awards

Global recognition for our unique optimisation solutions have resulted in numerous and prestigious awards.

  • 2015

    2015

    “Best Practice Paper Award” na CASPT, Conferência sobre Sistemas Avançados nos Transportes Públicos, por um artigo desenvolvido em parceria com os Caminhos-de-Ferro Holandeses (NS), “Planeamento das equipas de segurança nos Caminhos-de-Ferro Holandeses (NS)”.

  • 2012, 2003 and 1997

    2012, 2003 and 1997

    “Innovation Application Award” by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the most prestigious scientific organisation in the field worldwide.

  • 2010

    2010

    Honourable mention for the CREWS Real-time Dispatcher product in the “Innovation Awards COTEC-Unicer”.

  • 2006

    2006

    Medal of merit by the “Computerworld Honors Program” and qualification among the top five contributions in the transportation category.

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