MOM is a computer-based tool that automatically obtains optimized running maps with the following features:

• Optimization of journey times

• Minimization of traffic operations and stop times

• Prioritization of trains and the balancing of delays

• Robustness in order to obtain fault-tolerant time-tables due to incidences.

MOM integrates: mathematical models and integer programming; constraint satisfaction and optimization techniques; operation research techniques; as well as, intelligent and metaheuristic techniques.

MOM manages user, capacity and operational constraints.

MOM is able to deal with hard and soft constraints:

• MOM can automatically adjust or relax soft constraints (i.e.: traffic constraints, journeys times, etc.) to significantly improve the running map.
   

• The relaxed constraints are provided to the user for validation.

MOM is implemented in standard C++. It  can run in several environments (Linux, Windows).

MOM is easily integrated into existing railway databases.

MOM provides a high added-value  in the
management, analysis and optimization
of the use of railway infrastructures.