Swaps
It is frequently the case that two crew-members wish to exchange their duties for personal reasons.
MPG@Rail enable the crew-members not only to display their personal duty plan on their smartphone, but also to organize swaps with colleagues. For instance, a crew-member can identify a pairing that he would like to get rid of and describe what other pairings he would accept in exchange.
MPG@Rail identifies the possible swaps, i.e. the swaps that match the crew-members' wishes, that obey labor rules and that do not generate overtime payment. The possible swaps can be displayed in the planning interface so that a dispatcher can aceept or reject them.
In the example below, a crew-member would like to replace a duty on the 18th with a duty on the 11th, 12th or 13th. On his smartphone, the lower part of the screen shows the duties on these dates. A one-way sign indicates that a swap would not obey labor rules (for instance, the duties on the 13th cannot be swapped because the crew-member has other duties on that date). The color of the duty describes the swap possibilities:
green: the duty is currently not assigned - it is quite likely that the swap will be granted
blue : the duty is assigned to accolleague who would like to get rid of it and who would accept the offered duty on the 18th - again, it is likely that a swap is possible
orange: the duty is assigned to a colleague who like to get rid of it but is not looking for a duty on the 18th
grey : the duty is assigned to a colleague who does not wish to get rid of it
Une ou deux fois par jour, la régulation "résoud les échanges" - en d'autre termes, elle utilise une fonctionnalité de l'interface de planification qui identifie les échanges possibles et les propose au régulateur. C'est le régulateur qui décide au final de valider ou non les échanges suggérés. Dans l'exemple ci-dessous, l'échange suggéré est le remplacement d'une journée le 5 par une journée non affectée (OPP : open position) le 7. journée
