Locomotive Assignment for Scheduled Trains

AI enabled decision support and planning tool for large railroads

Introduction

Project Overview

PowerOps is a locomotive management and assignment tool for large railroads. This tool primarily brings visibility into realtime operations and helps in improved decision making using advanced AI based optimization algorithms and machine learning.

Challenge: To discover and define product requirements in order to transform the way railroads manage their fleet.

Team

Soumil Panwar

Awanee Joshi

Tingting Hu

Duration

10 Months

Role

Product Designer, Product Management,

UX Researcher

Railroad Operations

Scale

Core Problems

Body

Provocative Statement

Text

Optym and PowerOps

One liner about what Optym does

One liner about the product vision

One liner about PowerOps as an ecosystem for assett productivity management

Opportunity

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Project Process and Logistics

Body Text

Research and Requirement Discovery

Talk about the workshops, interviews

Give screenshots of how the requirements were documented, how they evolved over time

Use of journey of a locomotive as a probe for understanding the context and different aspects

Process Maps

Give a brief summary of the intent of these maps

Give screenshots of the mapping exercises

User Personas

Definition of primary and secondary users and their needs

Images

PowerOps Product Design Strategy

Create and list design principles

Define clear design direction

PowerOps Modules (Show key workflows)

1. Business rules and base plan

2. Active Plan

3. Power Assignment

1. Onboarding Wizard

The app guides users through a seamless onboarding process, explaining how the app works and bringing awareness of the potential value plastic waste has. Users understand the possibility of making money with their household waste. A Toss-It account is created as a family unit with individual members having access to the same account.

2. Toss-It Dashboard

The app allows people to effortlessly visualize the amount of plastic waste they have recycled and the associated rewards at any given moment. With personalized recycling targets based on your family size and the current month, Toss-It inspires users to achieve eco-friendly goals and go the extra mile for the environment. Users cal invite their neighbors to join Toss-It in order to strengthen the community. Simple, intuitive navigation helps users to access and redeem their rewards.

3. Selling Waste: Instructional Guide for First Time Users

A user-friendly information illustration simplifies getting started and guides users on how to access the service. Users are given clear instructions of how to operate Toss-It bins, where to deposit plastic waste and how to collect rewards. With an intuitive instructional layer, we tried to reduce entry barriers to the service.

4. Reward Catalog

Users access their rewards by choosing brands they would like to redeem vouchers from and unlock these over time with their plastic waste. Unlocked vouchers can be used for online and in-person shopping with partner brands. We chose to give users the autonomy to choose rewards to cater to individual needs. This way of receiving rewards as brand vouchers helps users realize an additional potential in their plastic waste and helps the service position their brand in the sustainable business space.

5. Unlocking Rewards

A proportion of rewards are given as direct cash deposits in Toss-It cards that users can access in their card wallets and simply use in stores with a tap. This way of diversifying rewards was done for people to be able to use money that they earn for plastic instantly without having to wait for vouchers to be unlocked.

5. Toss-It Community

The user can see their rewards compared to residents in their building and receive achievement badges. Over time this was designed to promote healthy recycling habits and a sense of agency among residents.

5. Using the Toss-It Card

Users can simply tap and use rewards from their Toss-It cards similar to any other credit card. They could even choose to receive a physical card by mail.