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Efficient Shinkansen Operations by ‘The Real -time Shinkansen Crew Rescheduling Function’ Yuichi, AIDA Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan 8 July 2015, Session 3: Management No.238

Table of Contents COSMOS  Basic Crew Operation  Complicated Crew Operation & Restrictions  Development Background  Overview of Crew Rescheduling  Training Tool for Crew Rescheduling  Conclusion  Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 2 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

COSMOS COmputerized Safety, Maintenance and Operation Systems of Shinkansen Operations and Control １ System Transportation Planning Rolling Stock Management ７ ２ System System Maintenance Work Management Depot Management ６ ３ System System Electric Power Control Centralized Information Monitoring ４ ５ System System Co-developed by Crew Rescheduling Function • East Japan Railway Company • JR East Information Systems Company  Training Tool for Crew Rescheduling • Toshiba Corporation Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 3 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Basic Crew Operation Normal Operation Unusual Operation Planning Operation Plan Actual Revised Train Operation Plan Operation Plan Operation OCC OCC Actual Revised Crew Crew Operation Operation Plan Crew Plan Operation Crew Offices Crew Offices Crew Operation Revised Crew Crew Operation Revised Crew Crew Operation Revised Crew Plan Operation Plan Plan Operation Plan Plan Operation Plan Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 4 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Complicated Crew Operation & Constraints Constraints Shin-Aomori Sta. 1) Route (Destination) Constraint [E] Akita Sta. 2) Train Series Constraint [D] 3) Couple & Uncouple Constraint Morioka Sta. Shinjo Sta. Complicated Operation [C] Yamagata Sta. [B] Sendai Sta. [F] [G] Niigata Sta. A crew office Fukushima Sta. B crew office Nagano Sta. C crew office D crew office Takasaki Sta. Omiya Sta. E crew office F crew office [A] G crew office Tokyo Sta. Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 5 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Development Background << Problems >> << Key Functions >> (1) Acknowledgement  Impossible to quickly understand the Easily visualize and share the information on entire impacts by paper-based diagram current operating situation of Shinkansen crews based on the latest diagram (2) Rearrangement  Complicated to coordinate crew duties by Managers and Dispatchers individually Real-time editing of crew duties by time-space  Time shortage to re-arrange crew duties diagram with assistance of logical check and based on train delay automatic candidate crew selection  Long time-taken to complete (3) Communication communication with all crews affected by large-scale delay Visualize and share the transmission process  Complicated to follow the transmission by multi-users and -locations progress by Dispatcher in OCC Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 6 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Overview of Crew Rescheduling Key Function 1 Key Function 2 Key Function 3 Acknowledgement Rearrangement Communication Operation Planning Plan Share of Operation Plan Train Actual Controller Operation Share of Revised Operation 5: Data Input OCC 0: Sharing 3: Approval 6: Communication Crew Office A  Check the Influenced Crew Duties 1: Rearrangement 7: Sharing  List of Changed Train 2: Proposal & Influenced Duties Crew  List of Duties to be Office B modified Crew 4: Notice  Display the related alerts Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 7 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Overview of Crew Rescheduling (1) Acknowledgement Alert Train #1 (forecasted) 乗 Train #2 Train #1 (planned) (forecasted) Station C Station B Station A Duty y #1 Duty y #1 T1 T2 T3 T4 Current time Main Features  Display the current operation and forecasted duties  Easily acknowledge the influenced impacts  Automatic alert function Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 8 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Overview of Crew Rescheduling (2) Rearrangement (3) Communication Real-time Synchronism OCC Crew Office Crew Office OCC Crews Main Features Main Features  Multi-user access & editing function  Production of the crew lists to update with  Real-time synchronism on the computer new orders monitor  Visualized progress of order transmission Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 9 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Training Tool for Crew Rescheduling COSMOS Shinkansen Wide-area Optical Network Consolidation of all Crew Offices function with client server & database Database server Recurrence Operation & Control server function of Shinkansen crew rescheduling server event histories Shinkansen Crew Rescheduling Operation Control Center (OCC) Training Tool (Laptop) Shinkansen Crew Rescheduling Train Timetable Rescheduling Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 10 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

Conclusion 1) Efficiency in Crew Rescheduling Work  Reduction of Work Load  Reduction of Response Time 2) Accuracy Improvement in Crew Rescheduling  Efficient Crew Arrangement  Reduction of Miscommunication 3) Visualization & Information-sharing  Reduction of Miscommunication 4) Strengthening of Event Response Capabilities Safety, Secured & Punctual Shinkansen Operation Yuichi, AIDA – Deputy Manager, Toshiba Corporation, Japan – 11 8 July 2015 – Session 3: Management (No. 238)

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