In a method or apparatus for transporting bulk goods by rail cars on a rail network to a rail car handling terminal where the handling terminal includes a loading and/or unloading system with a metering device for measuring an amount of the bulk goods loaded or unloaded. At the terminal there is a center control data hub connecting to a plurality of portable hand held field computers and a communication system for communication with the rail network to obtain a Car Location Message (CLM), a way bill and mechanical data for each of the rail cars. The center control hub generates data indicating a current stage of each of the railcars and a signal indicative that a rail car can be transferred from one stage to another stage to the portable computers to control transfer of the rail car from one stage to the next stage.

The congestion degree calculation means 81 calculates a congestion degree at a vehicle and a stop. The diagram output means 82 outputs a modified diagram in which a current diagram is modified by optimizing an objective function learned using business history data including an actual change of a diagram. The risk calculation means 83 calculates a current risk which is a risk occurring at the present time, and a modification risk which is a risk caused by modifying the diagram, based on the congestion degree. The risk output means 84 outputs the calculated current risk and the modification risk.

The congestion degree calculation means 81 calculates a congestion degree at a vehicle and a stop. The diagram output means 82 outputs a modified diagram in which a current diagram is modified by optimizing an objective function learned using business history data including an actual change of a diagram. The risk calculation means 83 calculates a current risk which is a risk occurring at the present time, and a modification risk which is a risk caused by modifying the diagram, based on the congestion degree. The risk output means 84 outputs the calculated current risk and the modification risk.

A power control system for a vehicle system identifies coupler nodes in the vehicle system for travel of the vehicle system along a route. The coupler nodes represent slack states of couplers between vehicles in the vehicle system. The system also determines combined driving parameters at locations along the route where a state of the coupler nodes in the vehicle system will change within the vehicle system during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system. The system determines a restriction on operations of the vehicle system to control the coupler nodes during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system and to distribute the combined driving parameters among two or more of the vehicles.

A system detects a parameter and generates a first trip plan to automatically control the vehicle according to a first trip plan. A controller is connected to a sensor and configured to receive the parameter. The controller is configured to generate a new trip plan or modify the first trip plan into a modified trip plan based on at least one of a cumulative damage or an end of life date. A new trip plan or the modified trip plan is configured, during operation of the vehicle according to the new trip plan or the modified trip plan, for at least one of an adjustment in velocity or avoiding one or more operating conditions of the vehicle, relative to the first trip plan.

An operation management device that manages the operation of a plurality of vehicles is provided with: a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires the positions of the plurality of vehicles; an interval adjustment unit that, on the basis of congestion information, identifies a station that is a reference for increasing the density of the plurality of vehicles that are present and sets a standby time at each station that is behind the station that is a reference, the standby time being for the plurality of vehicles that stops at the stations behind the station; and a departure determination unit that adjusts the departure times of the plurality of vehicles from each of the stations behind the station on the basis of the standby times.

A power control system for a vehicle system identifies coupler nodes in the vehicle system for travel of the vehicle system along a route. The coupler nodes represent slack states of couplers between vehicles in the vehicle system. The system also determines combined driving parameters at locations along the route where a state of the coupler nodes in the vehicle system will change within the vehicle system during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system. The system determines a restriction on operations of the vehicle system to control the coupler nodes during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system and to distribute the combined driving parameters among two or more of the vehicles.

A timetable creation apparatus 100 for correcting a target timetable being a train timetable to be used to control a group of trains by using a predicted passenger demand to thereby create a new target timetable, includes: an objective function generation unit 115 that generates an objective function for an operation headway between trains included in the group of trains by using the predicted passenger demand; a constraint condition generation unit 117 that derives constraint conditions which an arrival time and a departure time of each of the trains at each of stations should satisfy for operation of the group of trains; and a candidate timetable creation unit 119 that creates a candidate timetable as an update candidate for a target timetable by using an arrival time and a departure time of each of the trains at each of the stations derived by optimizing the objective function under the constraint conditions.

A rolling stock scheduling creation device that creates scheduling of railroad rolling stock and includes: a processor; and a memory storing data used by the processor, wherein the memory stores transportation plan information which is information on travel of a train using a rolling stock train-unit including the railroad rolling stock, rolling stock train-unit information which is information on an attribute and an inspection conducting schedule related to each rolling stock train-unit. The inspection capacity information is information indicating inspection capacity of an inspection facility associated with the rolling stock train-unit, and scheduling for the transportation plan information is created by applying the rolling stock train-unit information and selecting a train to which each rolling stock train-unit is allocatable, and obtaining inspection conducting schedule information on each rolling stock train-unit to reflect an inspection conducting schedule of each rolling stock train-unit designated in the inspection conducting schedule.

A rolling stock scheduling creation device that creates scheduling of railroad rolling stock and includes: a processor; and a memory storing data used by the processor, wherein the memory stores transportation plan information which is information on travel of a train using a rolling stock train-unit including the railroad rolling stock, rolling stock train-unit information which is information on an attribute and an inspection conducting schedule related to each rolling stock train-unit. The inspection capacity information is information indicating inspection capacity of an inspection facility associated with the rolling stock train-unit, and scheduling for the transportation plan information is created by applying the rolling stock train-unit information and selecting a train to which each rolling stock train-unit is allocatable, and obtaining inspection conducting schedule information on each rolling stock train-unit to reflect an inspection conducting schedule of each rolling stock train-unit designated in the inspection conducting schedule.