MULTIRAIL PLANNING SUITE

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1 Surface Transportation MULTIRAIL PLANNING SUITE Based on decades of delivering service-design software and support to the world s leading railways, Oliver Wyman presents the MultiRail Planning Suite, which includes 16 modules that provide the specialized and integrated tools needed to plan and operate a complex railroad.

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3 contents MULTIRAIL AND SCHEDULED RAILWAY OPERATIONS 2 EVOLUTION OF THE MULTIRAIL RAIL PLANNING SUITE 3 MULTIRAIL RAIL PLANNING SUITE 4 INTEGRATED COLLABORATIVE RAIL DATABASE 5 MultiRail Collaborative Planning Data Repository RAW DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS 5 MultiRail Network Designer MultiRail Traffic Management Suite Traffic Editor and Forecast Managers OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS 5 MultiRail Blocking Plan Designer MultiRail Advanced Traffic Router MultiRail Train Plan Designer and Bulk Train Planner MultiRail Trip Planner MultiRail Advanced Network Simulator OPTIMIZATION TOOLS 6 MultiRail Block Optimizer MultiRail Locomotive Planner and Optimizer MultiRail Assigned Crew Schedule Optimizer OUTPUT MANAGEMENT AND EXPORT TO EXTERNAL SYSTEMS 7 MultiRail Operating Plan Explorer MultiRail Data Exchange MultiRail operating Plan Report Manager MultiRail Traffic Flow Analyzer (TFA) MultiRail Corridor Viewer Timetables and Stringlines RAIL PLANNING SYSTEMS COMPARISON TABLE 8 MultiRail Planning Suite 1

4 MultiRail has long been known as the leading integrated software package for rail operational planning. The MultiRail platform was the first widely available system that allowed railroads to build their operating plans based on infrastructure and demand, and not simply by editing old train schedules. For the past two decades, MultiRail has given service design specialists an extensive set of tools for managing networks, importing and managing traffic data, designing blocks, flowing the traffic over the blocks, and building trains that support the traffic and blocks that are actually seen on the railroad. multirail and scheduled railway operations...oliver WYMAN AND THE MULTIRAIL RAIL PLANNING PLATFORM HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN MAKING GLOBAL FREIGHT RAILROADS MORE PROFITABLE... Oliver Wyman and the MultiRail Planning platform have been instrumental in making global freight railroads more profitable. MultiRail tools help railroads rethink how they plan and operate. The concept of the zero-based operating plan was created by Oliver Wyman specialists to change the philosophy of service design and to build a rail operating plan from the ground up by basing the plan on customer demand. This approach leads to scheduled or precision railroading, in which a fundamental premise is that by operating to the plan, the railroad will maximize asset utilization, network fluidity and capacity, and customer service, all of which will ultimately reduce costs. By combining new technologies with a zero-based approach to reconsider their operating plans, railroads have found that networks they once believed were at capacity can be stretched to increase throughput without expensive capital improvements. Railroad scheduling tools keep crews, cars, and locomotives in balance and moving faster, helping reduce delays, downtime, congestion, and total equipment requirements. On the marketing side, scheduling tools can help railroads model the feasibility and cost to serve potential customers, as well as assess new product offerings. Armed with this more powerful planning philosophy, improved processes and software, many global freight railways have already raised their expectations on operational efficiency and profitability. Oliver Wyman believes that all freight railroads need to examine their way of doing business and consider the steps needed to take their operations to the next level. 2 MultiRail Planning Suite

5 the EVOLUTION OF the MultiRAIL rail PLANNING suite Over time, the MultiRail tools have been renewed and expanded to accommodate new interfaces and architecture, and to increase the system s scope to cover a wider range of rail planning activities. Our ultimate goals are to make the software simpler and more intuitive to use, widen the applicability of the tools to support a wider array of users, and to strengthen its optimization and analysis capabilities so as to provide more value to our clients. As a part of this evolution, Oliver Wyman has worked with many of the world s major railways to align MultiRail s traffic, block, train and other data with the unique characteristics of a railway s network, and establish linkages between the railway s internal systems and the MultiRail planning platform. This interaction among data and systems provides a foundation for a proven integrated service design solution. When this foundation is in place, and only when it is in place, can additional functions and tool-sets be added to the railroad s planning process. In this way, MultiRail lays the foundation for a variety of planning and analysis tools produced by Oliver Wyman and others....oliver wyman is pleased to unveil a full suite of rail planning modules that provide a wide array of functionality... Taking advantage of the integrated MultiRail platform, Oliver Wyman is pleased to unveil a full suite of rail planning modules that provide a wide array of functionality, each focusing on a specific aspect of rail planning and operations. The MultiRail Planning Suite currently contains 16 separate modules that are based on our experience and deep understanding of railroading, and anchored in the reality of a railway s unique operating characteristics. This is not a static or fixed list of modules Oliver Wyman is constantly adding to our list of modules, and evolving their capabilities. These modules can stand alone, or be integrated with each other, as the modules share common organization reference files, data definitions, railroad mainframe support data (waybills, car movement, blocks and trains) and a central Oracle data schema. MultiRail Planning Suite 3

6 The MultiRail Rail Planning Suite MultiRail integrated collaborative Rail Planning Data Repository network trains Resources shipment Routes trip Plans output/kpis & Workloads Raw Data Management and analysis MultiRail Network Designer operational Planning and analysis MultiRail Blocking Plan Designer MultiRail Train Plan Designer & Bulk Train Planner MultiRail Trip Planner & Advanced Network Simulator optimization tools MultiRail Block Optimizer MultiRail Locomotive Planner & Optimizer MultiRail Assigned crew Schedule Optimizer MultiRail Train Schedule Optimizer (in 2012) output Management and export to external systems MultiRail operating Plan explorer MultiRail Data exchange MultiRail operating Plan Report Manager MultiRail corridor Viewer - timetables & stringlines Rail Carrier Systems and Databases 4 MultiRail Planning Suite

7 Integrated Collaborative Rail Database MultiRail Collaborative Planning Data Repository This repository, at the core of the MultiRail Planning Suite, provides transparency to all aspects of the MultiRail data, providing a direct path for the movement of data from and to external systems, including the railway s mainframe operating and planning systems. This integrated database is unique in the rail industry. Raw Data Management and Analysis MultiRail Network Designer This module provides a variety of tools intended for the graphical entry and manipulation of a railroad network, including yards (stations) and railroad lines, along with geographical and performance attributes. NETWORK DESIGNER EXAMPLE SHOWING THREE REGIONAL YARDS MultiRail Traffic Management Suite: Traffic Editor and Forecast Managers These modules provide tools designed to manage historical traffic data and generate forecast data. The forecasted traffic is a detailed, origin-destination level traffic file, including empty car movements (if needed) for use in MultiRail. Also included is a rulesbased Traffic Adjustment Tool that applies user-specified rules to a traffic database. The Traffic Editor provides an interface to view, filter, manipulate, and query the traffic being used in an analysis. Operational Planning and Analysis MultiRail Blocking Plan Designer This module is used to create and modify the blocking rules or definitions that direct classification assignments. For example, block data includes origin, destination, and block type data for each block, along with the types of traffic generally carried by the block. It may include additional attributes, such as interchange data, final destinations, or customer and commodity designations. NETWORK DISPLAY OF TRAFFIC USING THREE BLOCK MOVES MultiRail Advanced Traffic Router This module determines the routing of individual cars through the application of yard-based blocking or marshalling rules. These rules support routing decisions based on a variety of criteria including the shipment type, shipment destination, load/empty status, service priority, and other attributes that may be designated by the railway. MultiRail Planning Suite 5

8 MULTIRAIL TRAIN PLAN DESIGNER AND BULK TRAIN PLANNER MultiRail Train Plan Designer and Bulk Train Planner Provides tools to create and modify train schedules, blocks to be carried and train connection standards. This module also supports local train service design and bulk train planning. For example, the bulk train planning tool automatically generates potential departure times when trains are full. MultiRail Trip Planner The Trip Planner simulates the movement of traffic through the overall operating plan. Starting with a traffic movement s release day & time, and based on its blocking sequence, the Trip Planner simulates the selection of trains used to move the traffic. MultiRail Advanced Network Simulator This module supports capacitated and uncapacitated analysis as well as bulk train modeling. The module s results show day-of-week volumes that provide a more accurate analysis of the overall operating plan by highlighting high and low demands across the system at the yard-block level, train level, and yard level. Optimization Tools MULTIRAIL LOCOMOTIVE OPTIMIZER MultiRail Block Optimizer This optimizer improves a current blocking plan or creates a new plan from scratch. Preconceived block destinations are dropped in favor of an optimized solution that considers all parameters as used by an algorithm that determines the best answer. The resulting blocking plan, often called a zero based blocking plan, can easily be used in further planning process steps. MultiRail Locomotive Planner and Optimizer This module optimizes the planned assignments of locomotives to trains throughout the railway system. The optimization improves locomotive utilization rates and determines a feasible and low cost repositioning plan. MultiRail Assigned Crew Schedule Optimizer This module combines user-defined hard and soft rules to produce an optimized set of crew job schedules for assigned crews, as employed in passenger railways or in European freight rail operations. This optimized schedule can then be used by the railroad to prepare the final rosters for the engineers, conductors and assistant conductors for scheduled train services. 6 MultiRail Planning Suite

9 Output Management and Export to External Systems MultiRail Operating Plan Explorer Using a web browser interface, this module supports free-form exploration of an operating plan through the use of hyper-links, filters, sorts, and searches to provide planners and managers with an easy method for reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of an operating plan. The system also supports both text and map based views of the operating plan, with easy navigation between the two views. MultiRail Data Exchange On a customized basis, MultiRail can be integrated with other client systems. This includes connections to real time execution systems, and linkages to various planning processes and systems for resources, such as locomotive and crews/drivers, costing systems, and track authorities. While the data interfaces are tailored to each client, a base set of code components and implementation strategies are used to meet the integration requirements. OPERATING PLAN EXPLORER BROWSER BASED DISPLAY OF TRAIN DETAIL MultiRail Operating Plan Report Manager This module supports a wide variety of reports, allowing the user great flexibility in terms of filtering report contents and creating customized reports. Yard-Block Level Reports Train Reports Simulation/Trip Plan Reports Comparison & Project Reports Statistical and KPI Reports MultiRail Traffic Flow Analyzer (TFA) The TFA is designed to analyze the operations and services of railroads by providing a structured, multi-year database of train movements and railcar movements, along with an array of mapping and reporting features for analyzing traffic patterns and workloads, and changes in traffic patterns and workloads for freight railroads. TRAFFIC FLOW ANALYZER LINK VOLUME MultiRail Corridor Viewer Timetables and Stringlines The Corridor Viewer contains a sophisticated environment for the interactive development of train corridors, publishable timetables, and a stringline analyses. MultiRail has the ability to generate timetables for one or more line segments for any period of time. With loaded track information, the corridor viewer can be used to check for train conflicts. MultiRail Planning Suite 7

10 Rail Planning Systems Comparison Table The table below shows the rail planning function and processes supported by the MultiRail Rail Planning Suite, compared with other sets of software tools available in the market today: Rail Planning Function or Process MULTIRAIL RAIL PLANNING SUITE OTHER OPERATIONAL PLANNING SUITE VENDORS REAL-TIME OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AND YARD SYSTEMS NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNERS AND PATH ANALYZERS Collaborative Planning Data Repository Graphic Network Designer Traffic and Forecast Manager Blocking Plan Design Algorithmic Traffic Router Table-Based Traffic Router Train Plan Designer Bulk Train Planner Train Optimizer Available in 2012 Trip Planner Advanced Network Simulator Block Optimizer Locomotive Planner Assigned Crew Schedule Optimizer Passenger Train Set Optimizer Web-based Operations Plan Explorer Operating Plan Exporter Reports Manager Traffic Flow Analyzer Interactive Corridor and Timetable Viewer Integration with Rail Carrier Systems Legend: = Full Support = Half Support = No Support 8 MultiRail Planning Suite

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12 With offices in 50+ cities across 25 countries, Oliver Wyman is a leading global management consulting firm that combines deep industry knowledge with specialised expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation and leadership development. The firm s 3,000 professionals help clients optimize their businesses, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is part of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit Oliver Wyman regularly customizes and enhances our software to meet specific client requirements and finds this to be an effective way of growing the product and ensuring that it meets all of our clients needs. Our staff has extensive knowledge in relational database design and implementation as applied to transportation problems. Oliver Wyman combines custom development with commercial software components to provide powerful transportation software in minimal time and with maximum flexibility to adapt to the latest customer requirements. For more information, please contact our practice heads directly: Carl Van Dyke, Princeton carl.vandyke@oliverwyman.com Joris D Incà, Zurich joris.dinca@oliverwyman.com Gilles Roucolle, Paris gilles.roucolle@oliverwyman.com Copyright 2012 Oliver Wyman. All rights reserved. This report may not be reproduced or redistributed, in whole or in part, without the written permission of Oliver Wyman and Oliver Wyman accepts no liability whatsoever for the actions of third parties in this respect. The information and opinions in this report were prepared by Oliver Wyman. This report may not be sold without the written consent of Oliver Wyman.