IVU systems reach the world’s southernmost city

Movigas in Punta Arenas plans and schedules with IVU.suite

In Punta Arenas, the largest city in southern Patagonia with some 117,000 inhabitants, the transport company Movigas has chosen efficiency and modern technology from Germany. Movigas is the only company in Chile to run an entire city bus fleet on natural gas. Every day, some 60 modern, Euro V natural gas buses are in operation for the company, and in future their operations and the duty rosters of more than 100 drivers will be planned and scheduled with systems from the IVU.suite.

In a region like Punta Arenas, the efficient planning of a vehicle fleet operating solely on natural gas is particularly challenging. Although Punta Arenas is one of the largest cities in South Patagonia, the area around the regional capital is only sparsely populated. For longer journeys to outlying villages, the stops at the special natural gas filling stations have to be planned very carefully. And because Movigas promises its passengers the lowest fares in Chile, and aims to keep this promise in the long term, highly efficient daily operations are a top priority. All these requirements now have to be integrated in intelligent planning systems for timetables, and personnel and vehicle scheduling. Movigas is therefore placing its trust in the software systems of the IVU.suite, which have already proved their dependability internationally for a range of vehicle types.

IVU.plan and IVU.crew will in future provide integrated scheduling for buses and personnel, while taking into account all the special features of the NG bus operations in Punta Arenas. The IVU solutions integrate into the daily timetable all operational rules, quality specifications, special factors such as road-works and public events, as well as the necessary maintenance work and refuelling stops. In particular Movigas has been impressed by the duty optimisation tools integrated in IVU.plan. These can be used to model all possible organisational service options and to develop a wide range of scenarios. Intelligent algorithms extract the most efficient duty plans from the highly complex scenarios.

“With Movigas, our IT solutions are now also in operation at the southernmost end of the world,” comments a satisfied Dr. Helmut Bergstein, member of the Executive Board of IVU Traffic Technologies AG. “Following on from Colombia and Argentina, this new order proves that there is demand in South America for the advanced engineering standards from Germany. We are proud that we are able to establish an increasing international presence and that our products find acceptance in all corners of the globe.”

IVU Traffic Technologies AG has been working for more than thirty years with some 300 engineers to ensure that transport in the world’s major cities operates reliably and on time. People and vehicles in expanding cities are continually on the move – a logistical challenge which calls for intelligent and reliable software systems. The standardised software products of the IVU.suite and tailor-made IT solutions are used to plan, optimise and control the scheduling of vehicle fleets and personnel, support the choice of branch locations and ensure that election results are determined correctly.

IVU. Systems for vibrant cities.

Contact:

Madlen Dietrich
Corporate communications
IVU Traffic Technologies AG
Bundesallee 88, 12161 Berlin,
Germany
Tel +49 30 85906-386
E-mail: Madlen.Dietrich(at)ivu.de
www.ivu.de

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