Passenger Railroad Applications (ctd)
VIA RAIL
- Revenue Management system was developed “in house.” VIA is planning to control reservations directly by origin and destination, since their ReserVIA reservations system does not support nested fare classes. (Berwick and Therrien [1997].)
- VIA’s demand forecasting system is integrated with their capacity allocation system. The capacity management system considers the marginal cost and revenue generated from additional cars, and demand characteristics which may vary over different legs of the equipment cycles. (Desaulniers, Cordeau, Lingaya, Soumis and Desrosiers [1997])