Planning the on-board crew of all trains in a timetable can be a challenging task. Especially if trains operate around the clock and at any time of day crew is working. Who is going to drive that 4:00am train? A driver who started his shift the evening before, as his last task on the way home? Or a driver who will start his day and shift with it? Different labor rules could even apply to the overnight shift and the early morning shift, so it can be hard to say what would be best.

DELMIA Quintiq Fleet & Crew Planner offers a crew duty generation optimizer that can assist the planner in creating the best set of crew duties covering all crew requirements coming from the timetable and fleet plan. And it can now do that for multiple days at a time as well, making the best decision for that trains running during the night or early morning. Watch below video to see how the crew duty generation optimizer can help creating a plan for a whole week, and adjust it for a single day if needed, in case a timetable update requires it.