TILOS - Linear Scheduling. Planning tool for infrastructure projects

TILOS is a time-location planning software for managing linear construction projects, basically infrastructure projects.
It can be used in different construction industries, like Highway-, Railway-, Pipeline- and Tunnel construction, but also in Water Engineering or Transmission Line Building.

The Linear Scheduling Method

TILOS was developed to improve visualisation of repetitive tasks when planning and managing major infrastructure projects. The time-distance diagram supports all kind of inrastructure construction projects.

The key benefits of TILOS is the flow of visual data in terms of time and location on one Chart. CPM schedules and network diagrams are more analytical, but they fail to provide a visual connection between the project plan and the project itself.

Traditional planning systems display their results in Gantt charts or network diagrams. Linear projects present unique challenges because the crews and equipment move along the construction site to perform their work.

Neither of the traditional diagrams are able to show a graphical link between the location where the work is performed (the distance axis) and the time when it is executed (the time axis).

Time-distance diagrams clearly communicate the scope by showing the project details and the schedule in one view.


Comprehensive Projectmanagement Capabilities

- on-screen planning and task lists
- activity links and constraints
- calculating activities (duration, quantity and work rate)
- CPM Reschedule
- displaying as Time-Distance-Diagram
- displaying as Gantt Chart
- import and export
- costs and resource assignment and reporting
- structured planning (summaries, hammocks, ....)
- reporting and filtering
- Progress and Variance analysis


Powerful display of the project

With TILOS you describe your project in a grafical way and you decide by yourself how to display:

- Capable drawing tools ease the creation of the location sketch by grid supported placemant of the symbols on their real location coordinates.
- a large library of symbols reduces the effort for creating the drawing.
- an existing grafic can be imported and gets synchonized with the distance scale.

TILOS possess various possibilities, to fit the chart display to your wishes and the requirement of the project:

- symbols and grafics
- scales and grids
- location related diagrams
- speed profiles
- mass calculaton and display

Various graphical layout possibilities

Although the various detailed displaying possibilities you are free in arranging the charts, sectors, location or distance related grafics, histograms and reports. So you are able to create unique plans. They are geared to the requirements of the target group meet the demands of the project.

Tilos comes with many features known from graphical tools or CAD:

- Graphical creation and editing of objects
- Layout models (views)
- Layer techniques (transparencies)
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)