TRACS-RS

The product – TRACS-RS

Tracsis’ new rolling stock planning tool, TRACS-RS, has a comprehensive parameter list to cater for stock planning rules and a planning geography which ensures that stock workings are legal. The geography is mileage-based and TRACS-RS can determine the operational cost of a given timetable in a short space of time.TRACS-RS has an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface which allows for rapid start-up and editing.

TRACS-RS – what can it do for you?

Import timetable data from multiple sources including CIF, PIF and VPT files
Automatically generate legal rolling stock workings
Permit rapid creation of efficient and operable rolling stock schedules
Visualise stock diagrams based on station workings
Handle multiple stock types within train formations
Handle splitting and joining including understanding the concept of “front” and “back” units
Produce statistics for mileages run in operation
Output stock diagrams in multiple formats, including direct export to TrainTRACS
Identify and eliminate illegal workings
Provide the ability to carry out ‘what if’ contingency analysis in a short space of time
Provide a method of fast production for quality short-term schedules (e.g. for engineering works)
Provide an indispensable tool to assist in timetable change and franchise bidding

Typical data requirements for TRACS-RS are:

A complete timetable (with or without ECS movements already planned)
A current set of rolling stock diagrams (if available) for calibration purposes
A set of rolling stock planning rules including any “unwritten rules”
Details of the available fleet

TRACS-RS has pre-configured interfaces with other train planning software such as TPS, VoyagerPlan and TrainTRACS.