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The CTMS is a major application that manages the various rail container
terminals on the New Zealand Rail Network. The CTMS allows Toll
Rail (formerly Tranz Rail) to manage any freight container - be
it on the ground or on a train - in a container terminal, and to
control the flow of containers on and off the Rail Network.
The CTMS is also tightly integrated with AMICUS, an older COBOL
program that manages other aspects of the Rail Network.
The business logic in CTMS is implemented with a server component
using the J2EE standard and IBM WebSphere Application Server; while
the full-featured graphical user interface is provided on the desktop
using the Amber Java environment
Clearfield Software was the prime contractor used by Toll Rail
when building the CTMS.
Project overview:
- Efficiently manages rail Container Terminals
- Controls all movements of containers into, out of and within
a Container Terminal.
- Controls all fork lift movements within a Container Terminal,
including communicating directly to those fork lifts that have
PCs fitted.
- Includes a B2B website to streamline customers' freight movements.
- Includes specific functionality to streamline the running of
a container terminal, including early problem detection and notification,
and specific handling for refrigerated containers (a Toll Rail
speciality)
- Tight integration with other existing applications
Technology
- IBM WebSphere back end, Amber front end and IBM DB2 database
- Makes heavy use of IBM MQ Series, Web Services, Java, J2EE,
Hibernate and Struts.
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A typical data-entry CTMS screen for managing freight movements.
The CTMS front end is an Amber application that runs in a web
browser. CTMS makes heavy use of the enhanced functionality that
Amber provides, such as data grids, smart tabs and server push.
The CTMS Stow Plan feature, for planning how containers will
be loaded onto a service.
The stow plan is a drag-and-drop Amber interface, that runs in
a web browser. Among it's many features, the stow plan allows
for the visual management of rail capacity, forward planning,
weight-balancing the Cook Strait ferries, controlling forklifts
and managing business exceptions.
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