FLEET
FLEET is SISCOG's decision-support product for rail and metro operators. It builds and manages optimised vehicle schedules — balanced routings, cyclic rosters, short-term calendar plans and scheduled maintenance — and supports controllers on the day of operation.
What is FLEET?
FLEET is one of the four standard decision-support products that make up the SISCOG Suite, alongside ONTIME for timetables, RAILNODE for local resources and CREWS for staff. Its remit is the vehicle: FLEET creates and manages optimised rolling-stock schedules for rail and metro operators.
It works from expected passenger demand figures, timetables, the network, vehicle specifications and needs, and the operational constraints and rules the operator has to respect. From those inputs it produces long-term balanced routings or cyclic rosters and short-term calendar schedules, and it handles scheduled vehicle inspections, maintenance and other services. In the calendar schedule, vehicles can be allocated to balanced routings following either irregular patterns or regular rotation patterns derived from the cyclic rosters. On the day of operation FLEET changes role and provides decision support to the people running the service.
What distinguishes it is the optimiser and the amount of control left to the user. SISCOG's optimisers combine Artificial Intelligence and Operational Research techniques, tackle large and very large scheduling and rescheduling problems, and optimise several goals at once even when those goals conflict. Around that engine sit three levels of decision support. In manual mode the product behaves as a computer-aided graphical scheduling tool that signals rule violations. In semi-automatic mode it suggests alternatives. In automatic mode it returns an optimised solution, using either default parameters or the restrictions and goals entered beforehand. Work can start in any mode and move to another at any time.
The product is built from independent but fully integrated modules covering the whole resource scheduling and management cycle, from long-term planning through real-time dispatching to post-operation analysis. It interfaces with other systems, offers extensive reporting with decisive KPIs and statistics, and is used through a web and mobile-based interface. Deployment is on-premises or in the cloud. FLEET ships as a standard product but is customised to the reality of each operator, with significant parameterisation capabilities. Its publisher, SISCOG, has worked this market since 1986 and has been a Modaxo company since 2025.
What it does
- Build and manage optimised vehicle schedules
- Produce long-term balanced routings and cyclic rosters
- Produce short-term calendar schedules for each vehicle
- Fit scheduled inspections, maintenance and other services into the plan
- Support decisions during the day of operation and recover from disruption
- Run what-if scenarios and reschedule when reality changes
- Generate reports, KPIs and performance statistics
When to use FLEET / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if FLEET is the right fit.
When to use FLEET
- Rail and metro operators that plan and turn round their own rolling stock
- Network planning teams building long-term vehicle routings and cyclic rosters
- Operational control centres that must reschedule vehicles when the day goes wrong
- Maintenance departments fitting inspections and servicing into the running plan
- Rail freight operators managing vehicle utilisation across long networks
When not to use FLEET
- Teams looking for a self-service tool: there is no sign-up, no free tier and no published price
- Organisations outside rail and metro — road fleets, aviation and shipping are never mentioned
- Anyone who needs to schedule staff rather than vehicles: that is CREWS, a different SISCOG product
- Buyers who must evaluate and deploy within weeks, since FLEET is configured per operator as a project
- Developers hoping to build on a public API, as none is documented
How to use FLEET
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Read the FLEET section of the SISCOG products page to check that the scope covers your vehicles
- Request the FLEET brochure through the form published on that page
- Ask for a demonstration by writing to the Products & Solutions address, sales@siscog.pt
- Scope the project with SISCOG, which parameterises the standard product to your network, rules and rolling stock
- Choose the deployment model, on-premises or in the cloud
- Interface FLEET with the systems holding your timetables, network and maintenance data
- Train the teams involved — planning, control centre and maintenance often work in the same system
- Enter your constraints and goals, then pick a decision-support level: manual, semi-automatic or automatic
- Build long-term balanced routings or cyclic rosters, then derive the short-term calendar schedules
- Run what-if scenarios, reschedule after disruption, and review the KPIs and reports after operation
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Documented results on a FLEET deployment: at VIA Rail Canada, one train set removed, savings of around 10 million CAD and available seats per mile up 3 to 4 percent
- The user keeps control: manual mode stays available at any moment and the tool signals violations rather than imposing a plan
- Long track record — SISCOG has worked this market since 1986, names twelve operator clients and cites a system in full production since 1998
- Independently certified: ISO 9001, ISO 56001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001 and NP 4552, with the APCER certificates downloadable from the site
- Scientific recognition, including three Innovative Application Awards from the AAAI in 1997, 2003 and 2012
- Deployment flexibility, on-premises or in the cloud, with significant parameterisation for each operator
- European publisher subject to the GDPR, with a named data protection contact and a published information security policy
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: no grid, no entry tier, not even an order of magnitude
- Neither a free plan nor a free trial is announced; the only route in is a demonstration request by email
- FLEET has no page of its own — it is an anchored section of a products page shared with the three other Suite products
- No public API documentation and no named third-party integration
- The published legal documents cover the website; nothing states how operational data loaded into the software is handled
- No data processing agreement is published, no subprocessor list, and no hosting country or region is named
- Only one published case study names FLEET; the other detailed cases concern CREWS, the staff scheduling product
Pricing & Plans
No pricing is published. SISCOG announces neither a free plan nor a free trial for FLEET, and the site carries no price list, no entry-level tier and no indicative amount — the site map lists no pricing page at all. The product is sold as a business-to-business project, and the only route to a figure is a demonstration request addressed to the Products & Solutions team at sales@siscog.pt.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how FLEET handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is concrete and named. The privacy policy, published on 13 March 2026, cites Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Portugal's Law 58/2019 of 8 August, and follows the guidance of the national data protection authority, the CNPD. It identifies the controller — SISCOG – Sistemas Cognitivos, S.A., Lisbon Commercial Registry number 501707336 — and a designated Data Protection Responsible reachable at ims@siscog.pt. A table maps each purpose to its data categories and legal basis: contract performance, pre-contractual steps, legitimate interest, consent and legal obligation. Access, rectification, erasure, restriction and portability are listed, with a reply within thirty days extendable by thirty more, plus a right to complain to the CNPD. International transfers rely on an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards. Note the scope: the document governs the websites and SISCOG's commercial activities, not the operational data processed inside FLEET.
Who owns the data?
SISCOG's published terms cover the website only, not the operational data an operator loads into FLEET. On the site, SISCOG declares itself the lawful owner of everything displayed — texts, images, charts, sound, animation and video files, together with the layout, structure, names, trademarks and logos. Logos belonging to clients or other third parties remain with those third parties. No intellectual property right is transferred to visitors. For personal data, the controller is SISCOG – Sistemas Cognitivos, S.A., registered at the Lisbon Commercial Registry Office under number 501707336. Nothing published states who owns the timetables, rosters and rolling-stock records produced inside the software; that question is left to the contract.
Reuse rights
Site content may be used for personal purposes only. SISCOG forbids copying for commercial use or distribution, modification, derivative works and incorporation into links on other websites; reproduction, transformation, public communication, extraction and reuse are all prohibited unless the law permits it or the rights holder agrees. Web scraping and other forms of automated extraction are named and banned outright. Linking to the site is allowed under five conditions: do not remove, distort or alter SISCOG's graphic elements, do not suggest that SISCOG endorses other products or services, do not give false information about your relationship with SISCOG, do not use its intellectual property for other purposes without written consent, and do not host offensive or unlawful content. Reuse of the schedules produced by the software is not addressed anywhere.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
SISCOG publishes very little about where data physically sits. The product itself is offered on-premises or in the cloud, but no provider, country or region is named, so hosting is effectively decided deployment by deployment. The privacy policy — which governs the websites and SISCOG's commercial activities rather than the software — states that personal data may be disclosed to other companies within the group, including entities located outside the European Union, and to the countries where the servers supporting the site are located. Those countries are not listed. Any international transfer is said to rely on a European Commission adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses approved by the Commission, or other legally permissible safeguards. Processors may be engaged for website management, database hosting or analysis of applications; they act solely on SISCOG's instructions and are bound by confidentiality, but none is named. Google Analytics data is generally transferred to a Google server in the United States, with the IP address anonymised beforehand. The company is established in Lisbon, Portugal, and its terms place any dispute under Portuguese law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the Lisbon courts. SISCOG holds ISO 27001 certification for information security management.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting FLEET.
- Over-reliance on the optimiser: an automatic solution still needs someone able to challenge it, which is precisely why SISCOG keeps a manual mode available
- Erosion of manual planning skill as automation settles in — the people who could rebuild a plan by hand may stop practising
- Vehicle schedules touch safety and maintenance, so a parameterisation error propagates through the whole plan instead of staying local
- Long commitment: the product is configured per operator and, as the published case studies show, it changes working methods and user roles
- Budget blind spot, since no public pricing exists and the investment cannot be sized before entering a sales process
- The published legal documents do not cover the operational data handed to the software, so ownership and processing stay undefined until a contract settles them
- Optimising several conflicting goals at once means someone chose the weighting: a management decision delivered through a technical output
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
High, and organisational rather than technical. There is no self-installation: FLEET is deployed as a project with SISCOG, which parameterises the standard product to the operator's network, rules and rolling stock and interfaces it with existing timetable and maintenance systems. Published case studies describe an agile approach with upfront consultancy on changed working methods and user roles, and several departments — planning, control centre, maintenance — working in the same system. Day-to-day use is easier: SISCOG describes intuitive graphical interfaces, several usability features and formal training sessions.
Deployment
Behind FLEET
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Frequently asked questions
What does FLEET actually do?
How is FLEET different from the other SISCOG products?
What information does FLEET need as input?
Does FLEET cover vehicle maintenance?
Can schedulers still work by hand?
How much does FLEET cost?
Can FLEET run in the cloud?
Is there a public API?
What results have operators reported?
Who publishes FLEET?
Should you pick FLEET?
FLEET is a deliberately narrow product, and that is its strength. It does one thing — schedule and manage the vehicles of a rail or metro operator — and it does it with an optimiser built on Artificial Intelligence and Operational Research that SISCOG has been refining since 1986. The company names twelve operator clients, cites a system in full production since 1998, holds five ISO and NP certifications, and has collected three Innovative Application Awards from the AAAI. Since 2025 it has been part of Modaxo.
The most concrete evidence sits in the VIA Rail Canada case study, the only published case that names FLEET: an NPO system built on ONTIME and FLEET that removed one train set, saved around 10 million CAD, and lifted both available seats per mile and revenue by a few percentage points. That is a real figure attached to a named operator — more than most vendors publish.
The reservations are commercial and documentary rather than technical. Nothing about price is public — no grid, no entry tier, no free trial — so the first step is always a conversation with sales. FLEET has no page of its own, its brochure sits behind a form, and there is no API documentation. More importantly for a buyer's legal team, the terms and the privacy policy govern the website and SISCOG's commercial activities; they say nothing about the operational data an operator entrusts to the software, and no data processing agreement, subprocessor list or hosting location is published. Those are items to settle in the contract rather than red flags.
If you run rolling stock and still plan it by hand or in spreadsheets, FLEET deserves the demonstration request. If you were hoping to try something this afternoon, it is not that kind of product.
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