- Develop operating plans
- Diagnose bottlenecks and recommend schedule changes
- Evaluate various capital improvement scenarios
- Assess the impact of adding new trains to a network
What RTC produces
- Animation of traffic flow
- Time-distance diagrams (stringlines)
- TPC profiles displaying elevations, speed, throttle, brake settings, cumulative distance and run time
- Track occupancy chart
- Detailed train status
- Timetables - at various levels of detail (from traditional list of stations and train departure times to complete meet/pass plans)
- Operating statistics at the individual train level or summarized by train type or at a system-wide level
