Travel and Transportation

IBM ILOG technologies offer travel and transportation companies the ability to increase competitiveness, safety and environmental impact by improving both customer service and operations at a lower cost.

Optimized planning, scheduling, routing and timetabling to improve operations performances:

• Reduce operational costs by better usage of resources with long term to short term planning and scheduling
• Improve reactivity by faster and better re-allocation of resources in case of service disturbance or disruption
• Improve quality of service by increasing punctuality and availability of material and staff
• Boost employee satisfaction with well balanced staff schedules, better compliance to regulations and use of flexible regulations
• Improve productivity, quality, flexibility and reactivity of planning agents with dedicated decision support tools
• Adjust price to demand and availability to increase revenue and margins

Make better decisions faster

IBM ILOG Optimization technology supports better decision-making to address these challenges faced today by all transportation modes:

• Staff, crew and drivers scheduling and planning
• Fleet planning, scheduling, routing and assignment
• Timetabling
• Asset and maintenance scheduling
• Airport resources allocation
• Container terminal resources allocation
• Container positioning and repositioning
• Yield and revenue management

The benefits of IBM ILOG Optimization

Better decisions
IBM optimization tools find non-obvious solutions, maximizing value and minimizing costs while observing the many complex requirements and limitations of modern transportation activities and operations. IBM ILOG Optimization shifts the cost-performance frontier for your system, providing better performance for less. And IBM ILOG Optimization produces quantifiable benefits to your bottom line—often with payback in less than a year.

Faster decisions
Automating decision processes decreases response time—necessary in today's accelerating markets—and allows operators and planners to focus on critical complexities rather than on routine issues.

Faster, lower cost development and maintenance
The high-level modeling tools in the IBM ILOG Optimization help engineers code and validate models with less time and effort than traditional programming languages, and by increasing the transparency of the model, it makes maintaining and upgrading the systems easier and more reliable.

Products

• Decision Optimization
• Supply Chain Optimization