Schedule planning for DB Fernverkehr

The new production platform is being im­ple­men­ted gradually and will bring a variety of IT applications that are relevant for the deployment of long-distance trains together under one umbrella in the future. That will enable DB Fernverkehr to deploy and manage trains and train personnel more efficiently in the future and to make travelling easier and more comfortable for passengers.

As a first step, the annual plan based on IVU.rail was successfully put into operation in November 2020. At the moment, the system primarily supports the setting of the annual train blocks. Altogether, IVU.rail processes more than 1,500 train journeys every day, which add up to around 147 million train kilometres each year.

“That is a big step towards the end-to-end digi­talisation of our planning processes,” said Dr Philipp Nagl, Member of the Management Board for Operations at DB Fern­ver­kehr. “It means that we have laid the foundations for our integrated production platform that will replace the many different individual systems.”

“Building a production platform for the entirety of Deutsche Bahn’s long-distance operations is a ground­breaking project for us, which is why implementing the first phase on schedule pleases me all the more,” said Martin Müller-Elschner, CEO of IVU Traffic Technologies. “I would like to thank the joint project team that handled this task so well in an already challenging year.”