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Over the last several years, we have grown as a company and developed several optimization and simulation based products for our clients. Listed below are our company and product brochures.

Innovative Scheduling Brochure
The company aspires to be among the world’s best transportation software development and consulting company. Our motto, “Optimization in Action”, represents our aim to create tremendous value for our customers, a profitable and stable enterprise for our employees, and a success story for the discipline of operations research. view complete brochure, view two-page brochure

Innovative Blocking Plan Optimizer
Given origin-destination traffic data and yard capacity data, this software generates a recommended blocking plan for the entire network, minimizing the total cost of railcar mileage and railcar handlings while respecting a variety of operating constraints. view brochure

Innovative Train Scheduling Optimizer
Train scheduling software determines how many trains to run; the origin, destination, and route of each train; the train arrival and departure times for each station at which it stops; the weekly operating schedule for each train; and the assignment of blocks of cars to trains, so that all blocks are carried from their origins to respective destinations while keeping total train scheduling costs (comprising of car hire, crew, and locomotive) minimal. view brochure

Innovative Locomotive Planning Optimizer
This software takes, as an input, a train schedule, locomotive availability data, and user-defined business rules and requirements. The software then generates extensive reports about locomotives required for each type and recommended consists for each train, train-train connections at each terminal, and optimal deadheading and light engine moves. view brochure

Innovative Locomotive Simulation Optimizer
This software simulates locomotive movement across a rail network and keeps track of four major resources involved in locomotive management - locomotives, trains, terminals, and shops. It mimics a real-life environment in which train travel times are random variables, locomotives periodically visit shops for quarterly maintenances, locomotives break down at random intervals and go to shops for repairs, and shop repair and terminal processing times are random variables. view brochure

Innovative Locomotive Shop Router
This software receives periodic data from a railroad’s live system about trains and locomotives, generating scheduled shop dates for all locomotives taking into account network-wide shop capacities. For each locomotive scheduled for maintenance in the next week, it recommends which shop it should go and the route of the locomotive to that shop over the current set of scheduled trains. view brochure

Innovative Crew Scheduling Optimizer
This software maps the assignment of railroad crew to trains as the flow of crew on an underlying network (where different crew types are modeled as different commodities), uses an integer programming-based approach to solve the underlying network flow model, and determines the optimal assignment of crew to trains. view brochure

Innovative Hump Yard Manager
This software allows a decision maker to understand, analyze, and optimize the resource utilization at hump yards by performing a railcar-by-railcar discrete simulation. This simulation includes train arrival and departure schedules, network blocking plans, and terminal track geometry. The simulation is also constrained by available resources, such as yard crew, locomotives, and railcar inspector schedules. view brochure

Innovative Yard Simulation Optimizer
This software takes, as an input, the yard’s geometry in a scanned image, blocking plan, train plan, resource availability, and simulates the yard operations intelligently as if an experienced yard manager is managing yard operations. It then creates several reports related to track occupancy and utilization, as well as locomotive and crew utilization. view brochure