Overview

CTI has been at the forefront of international R&D for the past decade, and the results have been outstanding. These include the world's highest performance database technology, leading edge algorithms and problem solving techniques, a flexible and high-speed business rules system and continual innovations to drive the evolution of transport and logistics systems. The R&D program has also delivered a stable architecture, platform and language approach for CTI products that manifests itself in extremely high system speed and reliability.

The CTI R&D program is considered by the Company as one of the most important aspects of our work. Ongoing research by a dedicated team of PhDs within the organization provides long term benefits to the customer and company alike.

The R&D Group works closely with Universities to create state-of-the-art optimization techniques and bring them to the proof-of-concept stage. CTI has founded the CTI-Monash Centre for Optimization in Transport, Travel and Logistics with Monash University. This center works with the Universities of Melbourne and Newcastle in several research projects with additional funding support from the Australia Research Council.

Current major lines of research include:

• Integrated planning and scheduling
• Robust planning and scheduling
• Business rules deduction and integration
• Schedule and crew recovery optimization
• Human fatigue modeling
• Advanced user interfaces