Author(s)

Hidetoshi Shibata & Eiichi Iwasaki

Abstract

Development of intelligent crew roster management system Hidetoshi Shibata, Eiichi Iwasaki Cars & Crew Manag. Section, Transportation & Marketing Dept., CentralJapan Railway Co. 1-2-3 Meieki Nakamuraku Nagoya, 453-8520, Japan Email: hshibata@hellonet.or.jp Abstract The intelligent crew roster management system has remarkably enhanced the productivity of crew journey schedulers without sacrificing the existing system or requiring tremendous computing power. In order to achieve this goal, we took the relatively new method called pattern-matching. In addition, we succeeded in maximizing responsiveness and efficiency utilizing the planners' decisions and thus enabled the minute optimizations. 1 Introduction The existing Computer Aided Crew Schedule System^, developed in 1993, has called for a great deal of data entry work although the system has exempted the planners from a load of paperwork. Through the permeation process, we reengineered the timetable renovat

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