Network Rail plans on HaCon

Network Rail, which owns and operates the UK's railway infrastructure, has extended its long-term partnership with HaCon for a further five years and will continue to use their train planning system TPS. The system enables train planners can create and adapt optimal train schedules across the complex railway infrastructure, constantly responding to the ever-increasing demands of passenger and freight needs across the country. Up to 300 train planners can use TPS to plan over 21,000 train services per da
September 22, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
5021 Network Rail, which owns and operates the UK's railway infrastructure, has extended its long-term partnership with 5550 HaCon for a further five years and will continue to use their train planning system TPS.

The system enables train planners can create and adapt optimal train schedules across the complex railway infrastructure, constantly responding to the ever-increasing demands of passenger and freight needs across the country. Up to 300 train planners can use TPS to plan over 21,000 train services per day on the country’s 32,000 kilometres of railway network.

Network Rail has deployed HaCon's innovative TPS Enterprise software running on the latest 64-bit operating systems. TPS Enterprise has been developed for large-scale infrastructure managers across Europe and has the benefit of being able to provide seamless integration of data and orchestration of access requests between the infrastructure manager and the passenger and freight operators who are adopting HaCon's TPS Operator edition.

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