Ineco has developed cronos, a comprehensive solution that allows designing the complete cycle of the holding to optimize the right service of the line.
Planning is one of the key factors when it comes to achieving success in the operation of a railway line. Transport engineering and consultancy firm Ineco has developed a comprehensive solution which allows designing the whole cycle of the operation to be optimized, and therefore the appropriate service commencement of the line. The CRONOS tool allows for the unification of methodologies, for the agile share of the most updated of project information and to foster cross-communication.
This multilingual application allows to simulating the theoretical operation, as well as the study of a rail line in the phase of definition and planning. It determines the aptitude of a design according to applicable design legal standards, performs a traffic simulation to obtain an occupancy graphic, calculates the dimensioning of the fleet for a set number of travellers, and also carries out the real-time simulation of the impact of the security systems and the signaling in preset circulations.
Cronos supports the whole lifecycle for the planning of railway lines, from the alignment phase, through signaling, to the grid planning, so that it allows for all involved areas to have an overview on the latest version, in order to be able to revise calculations with the particularities introduced by designs carried out in parallel.
Its successful implementation in part of the Spanish railway network has been paramount in order to export it to highly relevant projects, such as the high speed rail line between Makkah and Madinah, in Saudi Arabia.
This application, which is in constant evolution, is upgraded by analising the needs of all parties involved, in order to become a high performance planning and design tool for the operation. An innovation product developed by Ineco in order to make technicians’ work easier and to improve the efficiency of the project.
