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Timetable or timetables in the passenger traffic
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© Uwe Losse last updating 2006-10-17
Meaning for timetables during automation
Meaning of the timetables for the car circulation and personnel planning
Timetables are prescribed for many Verkehrsträger and kinds of traffic. From a timetable follows, how and when one comes from A to B. Timetables become mostly of a transport enterprise given change. In the ÖPNV or SPNV the timetables become in addition, Enterprise-spreading provides and publishes. This is since introduction of the regionalization law and the associated responsibility of the ÖPNV on the circles and circle-free cities, the case. Also Traffic groups or other co-operation forms in Verkehrsgewerbe publish a common Timetable (see timetable bases).
Timetables are not interesting only for travelers. With the automation of the ticket sales it became necessarily, timetables also of Ticket automat, ticket printers or On-board computers to be read and processed can. Which in the daily use so simply out-looks (one Timetable information or the sales of a ticket), is a complicated procedure. The sales devices need a timetable, must their location identify and the tariff valid for this location use. This takes place over the automation of the timetable. The same applies to timetable information over Internet.
From the timetable result for the transporting enterprise the vehicle circulation which can be driven. Under attention that legally prescribed steering and rest periods must a personnel planning be operated. For An optimization play results transporting enterprises. If a good timetable for the passengers is found, then this timetable must become into a vehicle circulation umgesetz, from this fast changes result and Adjustments, since vehicles must be waited and refuelled. Also empty travels develop with that Timetable conversion. Usually the timetable must be again adapted here. As soon as the vehicle circulation stands, a personnel planning must be accomplished, here is again steering and rest periods to be considered, which lead again to timetable corrections and to corrections in the vehicle circulation.