TrainOptimizer®-Software helps you to optimize your vehicles with just a few clicks!
Why?
In the case of passenger trains, the aim is often to maximise the number of seats. It is expected that this will improve profitability as more people can be transported. In reality, however, maximising the number of seats always leads to a reduction in efficiency, as in rail transport in particular this means that baggage stowage is greatly undersized and is not designed to meet the needs of travellers. In addition, the necessary movement space for passengers is greatly restricted in all vehicle types.
Problem?
The majority of travellers do not want to or cannot lift their baggage and want to have visual contact with it at all times. In the case of inadequately designed baggage stowage, this means that baggage is often stowed on or in front of seats or in the aisle. Furthermore, the baggage volume in the design of vehicles is often strongly underestimated. The consequences are blocked seats and aisle areas and thus a lower possible seat occupancy rate, higher safety risk, significantly longer dwell time, reduced punctuality, higher energy consumption and greatly reduced passenger comfort with increasing dissatisfaction. All this leads to a significant reduction in efficiency!
Optimization opportunities – How does TrainOptimizer®-Software work?
TrainOptimizer®-Software is a tool with which you can check the efficiency of any vehicle-interior design with just a few clicks. You can compare any variants of a carriage or train and get a clear picture of how long the average dwell time will be, how many pieces of baggage cannot be stowed properly and how high the proportion of unusable seats is or the actual achievable capacity degree. A variety of special queries are possible with the aim of determining the most efficient layout. TrainOptimizer®-Software is an online tool with the big advantage that time-consuming installations and updates are no longer necessary, and you can access all functionalities from any computer.
With TrainOptimizer®-Software you can easily create different vehicle layouts, adapt them at any time and compare them to each other with just a few clicks. You have the possibility of adapting different basic parameters, e.g. you can select special travel purposes or determine whether a train will serve an airport or not. There are many options for configuring your evaluations according to your needs. You can also choose a simple evaluation, which uses corresponding averages. In addition, it is possible to use regionally-specific data packages. You can either purchase these as additional features when they are available, or if required, we can work with you to develop special data packages tailored to your areas of application.
TrainOptimizer®-Software delivers concrete results per vehicle layout or by comparing the layouts with each other:
- Storage possibilities for baggage/number of baggage items that cannot be stored
- Actual achievable seat-occupancy rate /number of unusable seats
- Average value of the passenger boarding and deboarding time
The goal of TrainOptimizer®-Software is to compare different layout variants with each other in order to determine the most efficient variants with regard to short dwell time and the highest possible degree of seat occupancy. The absolute data per vehicle are inevitably subject to passenger distribution, since in reality homogeneity can never be achieved with regard to the number of passengers and passenger behaviour; in comparison of the parameters, the results offer the best possible accuracy!
You want to get an insight into the software? Then go to our download area. There you will find documents as well as videos that explain how the software works.
Which vehicles?
With TrainOptimizer®-Software you can optimize any public transport vehicle. The spectrum ranges from high-speed trains to inter-city trains, night trains, local trains and suburban trains. TrainOptimizer®-Software can also be used for undergrounds, trams and even buses.
