Viriato – Software for railways Head Office SMA und Partner AG Gubelstrasse 28 8050 Zurich, Switzerland Branch Office SMA et associés SA Avenue de la Gare 1 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland Subsidiaries SMA Rail Consulting + IT, Corp. 2677 North Main Street, Suite 825 Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA SMA (Deutschland) GmbH Stresemannallee 30 60596 Frankfurt, Germany SMA (France) SAS 45/47 Rue d’Hauteville 75010 Paris, France [email protected] www.sma-partner.com optimising railways Editorial services SMA und Partner AG, Zurich Visual concept Eggmann-Design, Tann Printing Linkgroup, Zurich Photo credits Cover Large photo: Sebastian Terfloth, Dresden Small photo: Panthermedia Page 2 Panthermedia Page 4 David Kaplan, Schwarzenberg, www.myLandscape.ch Page 6 Johannes Fein, Munich, www.feine-fotos.com Page 8 Panthermedia Pages 10/11 Panthermedia Pages 12/13 Ingrid Scheck, Senden Pages 14/15 Rudolf Ganz, Mainz Pages 16/17 Panthermedia Pages 18/19 Ingo Seidlitz, Büdelsdorf Pages 20/21 Sebastian Terfloth, Dresden Pages 22/23 Panthermedia Pages 24/25 Panthermedia Pages 26/27 Panthermedia Pages 28/29 Klaus Schmückle, Kernen-Stetten Pages 30/31 Panthermedia Pages 32/33 Sebastian Terfloth, Dresden Pages 34/35 Sebastian Terfloth, Dresden © SMA und Partner AG | September 2016 INTRODUCTION Timetable planning at your fingertips Viriato is a powerful integrated Viriato integrates into the entire planning Following a major investment project timetable planning tool that allows process: we have recently developed a new users to optimise the railway planning integrated vehicle rostering module process. ■■Strategic that allows efficient plans to be made Using high-level data to develop initial enabling effective use of rolling stock Since Viriato was first introduced in travel time estimates, rough timetables assets while the timetable is being 1996, it has undergone a continuous and rostering plans that optimise prepared. This module includes auto- process of development to add new vehicle utilisation. Viriato helps mation and optimisation functionality to features and functionality, and has planners identify optimal timetables assist the user in the vehicle planning been recently completely rewritten to by allowing them to easily compare process. take advantage of the latest software alternatives. engineering practices using an up-to- ■■Capacity Viriato allows the user to work with date architecture and technology. As timetable implementation timetable concepts varying in size from Originally focussing on strategic approaches, Viriato can work with aspirational schemes through to fully timetabling, its functionality has now detailed data to refine and share populated national databases, allowing expanded to cover the entire planning timetables between stakeholders. the creation of efficient plans maximis- process, from very long-term ■■Operations ing the usage of network capacity and timetables through to short-term Daily timetables can be prepared rolling stock assets, while providing operational plans. for use by train operators and infra- high quality services to customers. structure managers. Viriato forms a complete timetable Viriato provides timetable planners with planning suite that helps timetable a full suite of applications addressing planners to develop optimal timetables all aspects of the timetable planning for all levels of operations quickly, process. The Viriato interface consists accurately and transparently. Thanks to of the graphic timetable, trip time its unique features, it has established analysis, conflict detection, netgraphs, itself as an integral part of the time- platform occupation charts and tabling process at more than 90 com- customer timetables in addition to data panies in 15 countries. manipulation features. To allow the optimal feature coverage, Viriato has been developed into two parallel products, Viriato Standard for timetables with a high degree of regu- larity, and Viriato Enterprise allowing greater flexibility as the operational requirements emerge. 3 VIRIATO The right precision Viriato is the planning tool that covers throughout the application, in both the full planning process from the Viriato Standard and Enterprise versions. strategic through to the operational level. It achieves this through the use Viriato Enterprise extends this concep- of a top-down or “service-centric” tual model further to allow the train methodology where you can freely planner to make the changes to a highly think about the train services that you structured timetable that are needed want to run before aligning them with when faced with commercial variations, the constraints of the network. engineering works and other sources of modifications to the plan. Trains can Unlike other planning tools, in Viriato have their service patterns altered, be you work at a level of data granularity rerouted or use different infrastructure appropriate for the task. A feature- features while retaining their link to the orientated data model lets you concen- original train. trate on planning trains and then adding more detailed information later in the Viriato consistently follows these process. principles to enable train planners to develop their plans, and understand Having the appropriate level of infra- any constraints on their services at an structure data for the current task earlier stage than would otherwise relieves the train planner from maintain- be possible. This ensures that Viriato ing an overly detailed infrastructure provides the maximum possible model where unnecessary information information to the train planner at each has to be entered and managed. stage in the process, from conceptual As the timetable implementation date design through to production-ready approaches, Viriato can work with timetables. increasingly detailed data to refine the plan. This prevents the planner from Planners can design efficient time- being constrained by having to create tables, allowing them to easily compare an unnecessarily detailed model for the alternative scenarios and identify where task they are working on. changes have been made. Timetables based on the concept of coordinated interval services provide passengers with excellent services, but are very complicated to develop and evaluate by hand. Viriato was created explicitly for regular-interval timetables and integrates this concept fully 5 VIRIATO Modern timetabling Viriato offers the user an efficient ■■The train validity model allows each working environment in which to train to have its own individual validity, create timetables and evaluate their while user defined templates and effectiveness. update functionality helps to maintain complex patterns easily. The program is developed using state- ■■The graphic timetable can be edited of-the-art software engineering tools directly, and the user may retime and techniques, and using object- whole or partial trains simply through oriented architecture offers significantly selecting the relevant portion of a ser- higher performance and better vice. scalability for very large railway ■■Conflict detection enables the user to networks. This architecture allows the eliminate conflicts dynamically simply integration of user-specific functionality by dragging trains on the graphic and interfaces in a consistent manner. timetable or platform occupation view. The latest version of Viriato includes ■■User-defined reports allow detailed a range of features that significantly queries of timetable data to be pro- increase the efficiency of the timetable duced. planning process: ■■Configurable keyboard shortcuts allowing direct access to features. ■■The user interface is consistent ■■The extensible architecture allows throughout the entire program, with the development of bespoke interface an efficient workflow with the infor- to capacity ordering and management mation required on each screen made systems. directly available to the user. ■■The addition or modification of data Viriato can be used with a range of on any screen is reflected in all views, database management systems allowing allowing the planner to visualise and system installations ranging in size manage at a glance the timetable from single users to many hundreds development process. with controlled access rights to data by ■■The undo feature allows the planner name and role. to experiment with alternatives, and to quickly correct any non-optimal changes made. ■■Bulk update functionality speeds up repetitive data entry tasks. 7 VIRIATO OVERVIEW Modular design to meet your needs Viriato has been designed with a Optional features (available in both modular architecture allowing the user Viriato Standard and Enterprise): to work with the features that are ■■Vehicle rostering – prepare detailed required for the planning task that they plans of fleet utilisation and are undertaking. As more detail outputs maintenance tasks become necessary, additional modules ■■Conflict detection – verify compliance can be seamlessly integrated into the of the timetable with infrastructure program. constraints ■■Robustness analysis – verify the Viriato Standard features: resilience of the timetable to ■■Netgraph – service-centric view of perturbations caused by operational timetable showing service frequencies incidents and routes ■■Trip time analysis – display in tables ■■Graphic timetable – visualisation of and graphics the journey time train service and interaction between between locations including change trains times, and export data for deeper ■■Customer timetable – tabular analysis presentation of timetable