BIA Technologies: Automated Shunting Planning Solution

Main article: Transportation Management System (TMS)

2022: Solution Presentation

On November 17, 2022, BIA Technologies announced that it had replenished its product portfolio in the direction of mathematical optimization with two solutions for the railway industry: shunting planning and railway transportation planning.

The situation for November 2022 hit the railway industry quite hard. Logistics schemes have undergone an emergency review, and thousands of freight cars have become idle, "said Stanislav Voronin, head of business analytics systems at BIA Technologies. - The conclusion suggests itself: business needs competent planning, taking into account constantly changing introductory and reducing a variety of costs. Both are possible with the implementation of optimization systems in the company.

The automated shunting planning solution will allow large industrial enterprises to manage car traffic at transport hubs, form and load trains as quickly as possible at the local station, significantly reduce costs and reduce locomotive mileage when handling railway trains by 10%.

In turn, the decision to plan railway freight transportation will help railway operators transport determine the purpose of rolling stock for applications, draw up optimal schedules of repair work, maximize the efficiency of using the fleet of cars and minimize empty mileage and downtime of rolling stock, as well as reduce operating costs and payments to the owner of infrastructure.