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Short-Term
Scheduler
The Short-Term Scheduler
handles short-term planning. This consists of changing the
work of personnel after the initial allocation has been
performed on the roster (daily plan), based upon the
propagation of the allocated base roster for the chosen year
period.
Short-term planning includes the
functionality that is available in the Duty Scheduler, Roster
Scheduler and Allocator. However, short term planning deals
with calendar days rather than abstract frequencies (weekdays
and year periods), and with actual personnel resources
(personnel names or numbers, with concrete skills and
availability) rather than abstract duty numbers (associated
with certain skills).
Main
features:
- Imports duties from the Duty
Scheduler, unallocated base rosters from the Roster
Scheduler, and allocated base rosters from the Allocator,
and propagates them into the roster (daily
plan)
- Enables the creation of new
trains, and the cancellation and modification of existing
ones
- Maintains information about the
personnel resources, namely personal and historical
information, skills, absences, and
holidays
- Enables scheduling and
rescheduling of train tasks into duties and duties into
rosters
- Enables allocation and
reallocation of duties to personnel
resources
- Provides full integration of
scheduling/allocation and rescheduling/reallocation
modes
- Manual, assisted-manual,
semi-automatic and automatic modes
- Takes into account station
resources (meals in restaurants, sleeping in dormitories,
etc.)
- Considers user-defined types of
tasks (both trips and tasks within
stations)
- Considers equipment, task, and
road knowledge of individual personnel resources, as well as
knowledge refreshment
- Considers unavailability of
individual personnel resources due to different types of
absences
- Considers transfer times between
tasks
- Considers duty briefing and
debriefing times
- Considers rest periods and rest
patterns
- Allows the segmentation of
tasks
- Provides automatic and/or manual
generation of positioning trips
- Takes all labour rules in
consideration (both soft and hard rules, and both at the
duty level and at the roster level)
- Shows the violations existing in
a day, week, or year plan of personnel
resources
- Shows the deviations to what was
planned at the long-term level
- Shows the deviations to what was
really performed
- Warns the workers about changes
in their plans
- May provide information to the
customer personnel payroll system, about what was really
performed by the workers, including the complete history of
relevant deviations to what had been planned
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