iPLAN- Module Station Timetable
What is the graphic timetable for the train rides on an open track, this is the station timetable for the operation control places. With it's help train rides and track occupations in location spots can be planned and visualized. With the programme functionality station timetable train journeys and track occupations of a location spot can be presented in two ways:
The graphic track occupancy plan
shows the temporal occupancy of the tracks of a location spot similar to a diagramme. Because this view is on the basis of its clarity suggested especially for the planning phase, the direkct working on it is supported - so you can for example move trains on a new track via Drag&Drop or define vehicle transitions between two train rides. For an easier optical allocation of track occupancies to a line or driving relation trains can be highlighted with different colours, font sizes and symbols.
The tabular station timetable
lists all train rides of a location spot in chronological order. In the colums of the table the arrival/departure times, operating days, the used track as well as if necessary relevant vehicle transitions are displayed. This view is adressed predominant to the operating staff, which gets with this an overview of the operational actions which have to be made according to the timetable. The design of the table can be configurated individually by hiding of not needed colums and editing of the colum headlines.
By integration of the function station timetable in the programme iPLAN a main part of the needed data (e.g. arrival and departure times of the trains) can be imported out of the graphic timetables and kept synchron in the case of later modifications by periodic comparisons. Therewith the time-consuming and error-prone duplicate entries of data is avoided.
Further functions:
- the track use of the trains can be represented differentiated by operating days
- additionally to the train rides also shunting movements and stoppages inside of the location spot as well as vehicle transitions between trains can be taken into account
- filter opportunities of the trains to display by operating days
- common administration of several location spots (remote controle station timetable) in one station timetable possible
- test function for detection of track occupancy conflicts as soon as undefined track occupancies
- optional rule-based allocation of the track use