Benefits of MOM 

MOM is a decision support system for the railway scheduling problem. It allows users to optimize the use and management of railway infrastructure by means of a flexible, powerful, integrated and user-friendly interface system. The user can automatically obtain optimized timetables for periodic or non periodic trains according to existing and high-traffic railway infrastructures. MOM provides several benefits for railway infrastructure management.

• MOM is flexible and friendly. It is able to deal with both hard and soft constraints in timetabling optimization process.
   

• MOM can be easily integrated into already existing data-bases and other computer-aided tools for railway management.
   

• MOM automatically obtains optimized and well-formed running maps (timetables). Complex well-formed timetables can easily and quickly be obtained.
   

• MOM can validate complex timetables by automatically performing all the consistency checks required for well-formed timetables.
   

• MOM allows the management and the optimization of the use of the railway infrastructure.
   

• MOM can simulate/evaluate the effects of modifications in railway infrastructure, rolling stock, traffic criteria, journey times, commercial stops, etc.
   

• MOM  can validate and perform capacity analyses (theoretical, UIC, ASFA, ERTMS).
   

• MOM can perform robustness assesment processes of timetables.
   

• MOM can reschedule running maps according to incidences and delays in on-line, real-traffic management (in the near future).