Contura – Autumn/Winter 2013/14

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By vocation A man with a plan: the timetabler Working for the RhB: Get your career on track – find out more at 89 10 A visionary with 35 years’ experience: Marco Margadant in front of "his" timetable in Chur
Every minute counts: Head of Timetabling Margadant personally ensures punctuality – naturally with the legendary 'station clock' on his wrist. You could call him the Head of the rolling timetable. Here at the Operations Centre in Landquart is where all the strands come together – and things can get pretty tricky here when the weather wreaks havoc with the points or power supply. Marco Margadant, RhB Head of Timetabling, makes split-second decisions to keep the trains running on time. Punctuality is his absolute top priority. Is that a spider’s web or maybe even a sewing pattern laid out on the table of Office 003 at the RhB’s administrative HQ? Both seem fairly appropriate in relation to the work of Marco Margadant – the company’s senior timetabler. Seated at his computer screen, he is currently pondering how the timetable for the year after next might look: "We are always ahead of time. We have to be, because partners such as SBB or Post- Bus, who guarantee feeder services and connections, also "We are always draw up their schedules eighteen months in advance." ahead of time. We Simulation with a mouse click have to be – just With a few clicks he first drafts the graphic timetable, like our partners." based on a defined concept. A confusing jumble of lines Marco Margadant appears on the screen, the rail network so to speak; the first step in drawing up timetables is devoted to the route. "Although, to be precise: top priority always goes to what the customers want – provided it is economically viable. We have to ask ourselves: does it make sense to operate this line and can we generate sufficient capacity?" A new click, new colours: a locomotive and a train formation with carriages have been assigned to the line. Another click, again in a fresh colour: the train now has its very own driver and guards. The task may still involve manual labour, but not like in the old days when all the timetables were drawn by hand in pencil and had to be pinned onto the wall. Now, standard software takes care of everything. "If my PC crashes, all I can do is fetch the post. I’m useless without it." But if you think Margadant spends all his time in front of his PC, you’d be wrong: 50 per 11
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