Jeppesen make it possible for railways to significantly improve both efficiency and top-line capacity growth. We provide software and services to passenger and freight railways worldwide, that allow them to optimize their equipment allocation, crew scheduling and rostering, plus ensure a robust day-of-operation management and administration.

Railways are under increasing pressure to seek new business opportunities yet increase the profitability of existing operations. Because of this, it is vital that the right decision support, personnel scheduling, and asset management tools are available to railways to achieve these objectives.

Our solutions are used with great success by many of the world's best-known railways. They receive:

• The most cost-effective crew schedules possible, though with a high quality-of-life for their crew, due to Jeppesen's advanced optimization technology
  
• A significantly shortened planning process enabling maximum operational flexibility,
  
• Extensive and highly adaptable modelling facilities that allow rapid simulation of a wide range of business alternatives
  
• Tools for generating accurate business cases, in terms of crew and equipment required, when competing for franchise rights in new markets

• A powerful combination of business know-how and world-leading optimization technology that solves a wide range of resource management problems
  
• Proven solutions that work in production, even for the largest operations
  
• A clear strategy of product integration, making it possible to make quick, end-client-oriented decisions with detailed system support
  
• The combination of world-class optimization and maximum flexibility, through the use of the business modelling language, Carmen Rave®
  
• Possibility to use features such as advanced simulations, individual crew requests and web-based crew communication