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The key tasks LCR software must do are: load prices schedules and code tables automatically; keep control of volume commitment and available capacity; compare dial codes correctly; turn the carriers' name-based price schedule into a dial code-dependent termination cost schedule; put costs in order; incorporate quality considerations; produce ...
Example of a ticket and "Now Serving" sign used in the Ticket Queue Management System. The basic concept of a ticket lock is similar to the ticket queue management system. This is the method that many bakeries and delis use to serve customers in the order that they arrive, without making them stand in a line.
The term C10k was coined in 1999 by software engineer Dan Kegel, [3] [4] citing the Simtel FTP host, cdrom.com, serving 10,000 clients at once over 1 gigabit per second Ethernet in that year. [1] The term has since been used for the general issue of large number of clients, with similar numeronyms for larger number of connections, most recently ...
The OV-chipkaart was launched in 2002 [15] but only fully replaced the national strippenkaart of the 1980s for buses, trams, and metro trains in 2011, [16] and the paper ticket system for rail travel in July 2014. [17]
The MARS-1 train ticket reservation system was designed and planned in the 1950s by the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute, now the Railway Technical Research Institute, with the system eventually being produced by Hitachi in 1958. [6] It was the world's first seat reservation system for trains. [7]
[5] [6] The chief competitor at the time was SpecC another C based open source package developed by UC Irvine personnel and some Japanese companies. In June 2000, a standards group known as the Open SystemC Initiative was formed to provide an industry neutral organization to host SystemC activities and to allow Synopsys' largest competitors ...
Computer booking systems allow public service with reduced staff involvement. Typically a computer booking system consists of both server and client software. The server software might run within the LAN or more typically is run from a publicly accessible web-server thus enabling users to book or reserve their computer time from their web-browser.
As part of the deal LCR was forced to appoint a management contract for EUKL. This was won by Inter-Capital and Regional Rail (ICRR), a consortium of National Express (40%), SNCF (35%), SNCB (15%) and British Airways (10%). The contract was to run from 1998 until 2010. [12] [13] Following the access to finance, LCR was able to begin the CTRL ...