Audience
This course addresses expert planners with a deep understanding of the Carmen Rostering and Preferential Bidding system who wants to fully understand and control APC.

Benefits
The course gives you a deep understanding of the Automatic Pairing and Crew rostering module (APC) in the Carmen Crew Rostering System. After completing the course you will be able to:

• Control APC methods through parameters
• Analyse APC runs in detail
• Control features such as Route Instruction, Fly Below Rank etc.
• Tune APC runs for maximum performance
• Suggest changes in Rave code for maximum performance

Prerequisites
A deep understanding of the Carmen Crew Rostering System gained through at least 6 months of experience using the system in addition to the course Basic Crew Rostering/PBS.

Course topics

• APC inside
• The entire APC process
• Crew-Trip plausibility matrix
• Generation and search width


• APC methods and parameters
• CAS initial
• Shift improve
• Crew improve
• Maximum roster
• Training program
• Map variables
• APC scripts


• APC features
• Strict seniority
• Route instruction
• Fly below rank
• Buddy bids
• Base variants


• Vertical constraints
• Global constraints
• Qualifications
• Usage
• Definition
• Penalty
• Verification
• Pitfalls


• Performance tuning
• Generation limitating rules and parameters
• Search width limitation
• Tools to identify problems
• Controlling CPLEX


• Questions to APC developers

All exercises are done using a generic flight data and rule set ("Carmen Airlines").

Duration
2 days.