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CREW LOGIC

The document discusses a Decision Support System (DSS) developed to optimize crew links in railway systems, significantly reducing the time required for manual link creation. The cloud-based software offers various benefits, including improved crew mileage, cost savings, and enhanced work-life balance for crew members. The startup, Mathologic Technologies, is also working on additional DSS products for locomotive links and other railway scheduling needs.

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CREW LOGIC

The document discusses a Decision Support System (DSS) developed to optimize crew links in railway systems, significantly reducing the time required for manual link creation. The cloud-based software offers various benefits, including improved crew mileage, cost savings, and enhanced work-life balance for crew members. The startup, Mathologic Technologies, is also working on additional DSS products for locomotive links and other railway scheduling needs.

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A Decision Support System

to Make Crew Links

Making crew links in any railway system is a complex mathematical problem. Making a new crew link manually takes at least 15
days. Changing an existing link to accommodate new trains also takes a lot of time. Optimization is a complex task even with a
software. Attempting it manually is near impossible.
We pulled together a team of highly motivated researchers and passionate railway experts and worked tirelessly on this problem.
The result is an innovative user-friendly software that allows even non-mathematicians to optimize crew links. The software is on
the cloud and available for subscription.
CREW BENEFITS OF BETTER LINKS
 Increase in mileage
 Elimination of excess running room rest
 Timely periodic rest
 More time at home leading to happy work-life balance.
FINANCIAL BENEFITS
Improvement in crew mileage also reduces the total number of crew required. Crew expenses are major part of a railway’s ex-
penses. A small improvement in crew utilization can significantly improve operating ratio.

FREQUENCY of CHANGES in CREW LINKS


Crew links are changed for obvious reasons such as introduction of new trains, increase in frequency of existing trains, and chang-
es in train timings. Many other operational changes also require new crew links. Some of them are: change of traction from diesel
to electric; change of conventional passenger rakes to MEMU or DMU.
FEATURES OF THE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
 It is a web based system hosted on the cloud which ensures high reliability and easy accessibility.
 This can be used to make crew links of daily and weekly, long distance mail express and short distance passenger trains.
 A train journey is divided into driving sections of suitable length. The small driving sections can be clubbed to make a long
crew duty. Pilot running or dead heading of crew is accommodated in crew duty.
 Efficient round trips are made for all the duties. A user interface helps in selection of duties to combine and make round trips.
 The crew round trips are arranged in proper sequence to make crew links, satisfying headquarter rest and periodic rest re-
quirements.
 Railways can make the crew links per their choice through optimal suggestions. However, Decision Support System (DSS) is
flexible and allows the user to disregard the optimal suggestions and make practical choices to create crew links.
 Crew links for daily trains and crew links for weekly trains can be clubbed which leads to additional saving.
SUBSCRIPTION TO USE THE SOFTWARE
The customers can subscribe to the software. We will train the end users on making optimized crew links.
ABOUT THE STARTUP
The startup is incubated at IIIT Bangalore. It is promoted by Dr. Manish Kumar. The startup is currently working on DSS to make
locomotive links. A few more products, namely, DSS to make rake links, DSS to make and simulate train time table, DSS to sched-
ule traffic blocks, and DSS to schedule workshop staff are in the pipeline.

Mathologic Technologies Private Limited


E-105, Innovation Center, IIIT Bangalore, 26/C, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100
Mobile: +91-9481578871, Phone: +91-80-41205410, Email: info@mathologic.com,
Website: www.mathologic.com

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