US 6,249,741 B1 · Apparatus for supporting the preparation of travel routes

Abstract

A machine for assisting crew itinerary production is proposed which alleviates the burden of operator's works and produces practical crew rosters in a short period of time. At first, old crew roster data are copied as they are as new crew roster data in the middle of production. Subsequently, among new train IDs corresponding to boarding section data constituting new itinerary data, the data which exist as new train IDs corresponding to new rolling stock operation data are adopted as they are, and the data which do not exist as new train IDs corresponding to new rolling stock operation data are eliminated, suspensions of the service being made to correspond to the data. The same processings are executed for all new itineraries. The train IDs which have not been allotted among new train IDs corresponding to new rolling stock operation data are classified into the unallotted group. Then, new train IDs within the allowable range of departure/arrival information of boarding sections of suspension of the service are selected from the train IDs classified into the unallotted group among new train IDs corresponding to new rolling stock operation data and adopted as the new train IDs corresponding to the boarding section data.

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Dependent claims

A machine for assisting crew itinerary production which assists newly producing itinerary data for an itinerary which a crew follows from the departure at a train district to which the crew belongs to the arrival at the original train district, by combining plurality of boarding section data which indicate that when the crew boards on the train of what train-line at what station and when the crew gets off the train at what station afterward,

wherein there are provided an old itinerary data storing means for storing old itinerary data,
a new train-line storing means for storing plurality of new train-lines,
a new itinerary data storing means in the middle of production for storing new itinerary data in the middle of production, and
a train-line allotting means which selects a new train-line which coincides with or lies within the allowable range of an old train-line corresponding to each boarding section data of said old itinerary data among said multiple new train lines, allots said selected new train-line in place of the old train-line corresponding to the boarding section data, and stores said selected new train-line in said new itinerary data storing means in the middle of production.

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wherein there are provided an old itinerary data storing means for storing old itinerary data,
a new train-line storing means for storing plurality of new train-lines,
a new rolling stock operation data storing means which stores new rolling stock operation data that determine how to operate certain rolling stocks corresponding to said new train-line,
a new itinerary data storing means in the middle of production for storing new itinerary data in the middle of production, and
a train-line allotting means which selects a new train-line which coincides with or lies within the allowable range of an old train line corresponding to each boarding section data of said old itinerary data among said new train-line corresponding to said new rolling stock operation data, allots said selected new train-line in place of the old train-line corresponding to the boarding section data, and stores said new train-line in said new itinerary data storing means in the middle of production as the new itinerary data in the middle of production.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Apparatus for supporting the preparation of travel routes

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Apparatus for supporting the preparation of travel routes

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