As a fleet planner for a Train Operating Company you regularly may need to create a new fleet plan for a new or updated timetable that the company is planning to operate in the next timetable period. How many rolling stock is needed to operate the timetable and can all the regular maintenance for the rolling stock be performed efficiently and in time are some of the important questions to be answered. Making a new fleet plan for every new or updated timetable that is created, can be quite a challenging and time-consuming task, also limiting the number of timetables or timetable updates that can be evaluated before the best one for the operations is chosen.

An optimizer to create a great tactical fleet plan in a fast way can help the fleet planner to greatly save time, allowing him to look into the impact of each timetable on the fleet plan in more detail and also help the company to select the best timetable for its operations. DQ Fleet & Crew Planner Refresh2 contains an improved version of the tactical fleet optimizer that it already had available. It can now create a plan for a full standard week in one go, instead of day-by-day only, while planning all the required maintenance and turnaround activities. Try it out, and let us know what you think of it!