1C:Automated scheduling system. School: Experience of the implementation according regional features

The article presents the results of the process of implementing the software product 1C:Automated scheduling system. School at school 61 of the city Cheboksary (the Chuvash Republic), taking into account regional characteristics and using new functionality. The curator of the project was 1C, the developer was Big Numbers company, and the regional partner was Leader Soft company. During the implementation of the automation project, the following main stages were carried out: an agreement was signed; roadmap and schedule were developed; the project working group was approved (curators from the school, regional partner, 1C firm, developer); the program was installed; training was provided; requirements for the implementation of processes were defined. The results of the project were: freeing up time for the deputy director in scheduling; creating schedule templates in manual, automatic, mixed modes; operational schedule adjustment; building reports on the lessons and the effectiveness of the use of the premises.

METHODS AND MODELS OF MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING PROCESSES ON THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET

The paper proposes a method and a multi-model complex for managing computations, which make it possible to increase the efficiency of production processes at existing and prospective industrial enterprises due to the optimal (rational) functioning of their information systems. The features of computing processes and architectures of information systems of modern enterprises based on the concept of Industry 4.0 are considered. A brief description of the software package is given, in which the task of structural-functional synthesis of the structure of an enterprise information system, as well as the task of building an operational schedule for its work, are simultaneously solved in an automated (automatic) mode.

Evaluation of Flexibility Optimization for Thermal Power Plants

The increasing share of fluctuating renewable energy sources leads to changing requirements for conventional power plants. The changing characteristics of the residual load requires the conventional fleet to operate with higher load gradients, lower minimum load at improved efficiency levels as well as faster start-ups and provision of ancillary services. Despite the requirements from the electricity market, the value of improving those flexibility parameters is hard to evaluate for power plant operators. In order to quantify the additional benefit that can be achieved by improving flexibility parameters on a certain power plant in a changing market environment, an adjustable load dispatch model has developed for that purpose. Using past electricity market data, the model is validated for typical coal and a typical gas fired power plants by reproducing their operational schedule. In the next step, the model is used to apply parameter changes to the power plants specifications and economic effects are demonstrated. General statements are derived on which flexibility parameter needs to be improved on each power plant type. Furthermore, specific economic evaluations are shown for the reference power plants in order to present the ability of the developed tool to support investment decisions for modernization projects of existing power plants.

Assessment of Regional Transit Accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with UrbanAccess

Accessibility is an important metric in regional transportation and land use planning and as a component in equity analyses. Accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area of California was characterized with a new multimodal network accessibility tool, UrbanAccess. Accessibility was measured with open pedestrian and operational schedule transit network data at the Census block level across a large metropolitan extent. In addition, a framework was developed to assess changes in accessibility that resulted from alternative transit network structures. Results indicated that accessibility to jobs in the Bay Area was relatively high by walking and by taking transit. However, accessibility varied significantly by annual household income and geography. Disparities in job accessibility were most pronounced between Census blocks that were in poverty and Census blocks that were not in poverty.

UrbanAccess: Generalized Methodology for Measuring Regional Accessibility with an Integrated Pedestrian and Transit Network

Measures of accessibility have long been an important metric in regional transportation planning and modeling. However, new methods are needed to provide computationally efficient, multiscale, free, transparent, and customizable tools that harness open and disparate sources of transportation network data at fine spatial resolution over large geographic extents. This research presents a new open source tool, UrbanAccess, which uses a generalized and scalable methodology to measure transit accessibility with a multimodal network comprising both pedestrian and operational schedule transit networks at a fine spatial scale over large metropolitan extents. A typical use for this tool is illustrated in a case study that characterizes regional transit accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.