Questions on the circulation plan
- 40705: How can recurring special transport services (in particular, reinforcement services for, for example, football matches) be presented in the programme?
- 40710: How can I create circulation plans for a specific date? How can I avoid that trains, which lock out each other, appear in the circulation at the same time?
- 40712: In my circulation plan "manual selection" is displayed, although I did not use the window "Select trains manually". How do you get rid of this state?
- 40713: I would like to move trains manually between several circulation plans, but still be made aware of new trains when updating.
- 40714: How can train rides with a duration of more than 24 hours be arranged in circulations?
Questions on the customer's timetable
- 40400: Why does the customer's timetable look different on screen than on the printout, although it is "what you see is what you get"?
- 40401: My printer needs "colour-binding" output or a PDF / X-3 file.
- 40420: Why is the column “Station” in some customer's timetables larger than the widest text contained? Why does the width not react or only erratically to the default value under "View"?
- 40425: Is it possible to change the settings of a costumer’s timetable with respect to classes and symbols subsequently?
- 40426: When you load / reload the trains of a customer's timetable or create the opposite direction to an existing customer's timetable, a previously manually deleted check mark of the option "Enter Class" is automatically set again.
- 40427: The station names are too long for the train run row ("from" and "to") and are cut off. What can be done about it?
- 40428: Can tenths of a minute also be output in the customer´s timetable?
- 40430: In a customer´s timetable, a generic number footnote e.g. [13] is displayed for the operating days Mon-Fri[S] or W[Sat] instead of the default symbol (A). What could be the reason for this?
Questions on the driver's working timetable
- 40233: Why are route dependant speed limitations in stations (non-directly main tracks - branching in and exit drives) not displayed in the driver's timetable?
- 40238: According to which rules does FBS apply the "sawing lines" in the driver's timetable? Why are there sometimes three "sawing lines"?
- 40244: How can you create a driver's working timetable that displays more than one train (per table)?
- 40245: Can I store individual brake tables for the driver's timetable, from which the fixing and minimum braking percentages are automatically read out during the creation?
Questions on engine data
General questions on FBS
- 10070: When retrieving an online update for FBS, the message "The retrieved update ... contains invalid data" occurs. What can I do?
- 10071: Is it possible to start FBS without installing it or to copy it to the hard drive?
- 10072: Is it possible to start FBS from a read-only directory of the hard disk or from CD?
- 10073: Receiving: "Your FBS Licence cannot use this programme version. Please check if an activation is available for your licence". What does this mean and what can I do?
- 10074: Can I use FBS on Windows 64-bit systems?
- 10075: Is a server installation of FBS possible , and if so, what system requirements are there?
- 10085: When starting FBS, the error message "An error occurred (error number: -100) when reading the license plug". What does this mean and how can the error be fixed?
- 10086: The driver for the FBS license dongle cannot be installed / uninstalled. No user name or license number is displayed.
- 10090: Is there a possibility to define which FBS installation is used, when an FBS file is opened with a double click?
- 10150: Can I copy a table from FBS to the clipboard?
- 10250: Why is there a number of rounding rules in FBS, and why are they set differently for different timetables?
- 20911: FBS was transferred onto another computer and I would like to keep the existing configurations. Where can I find the FBS configuration files?
Questions on the graphic timetable
- 10350: How can you set which brake tables apply? What is the setting of the brake tables important for?
- 10450: As an alternative to the braking percentage, a mean brake deceleration can also be provided. Where is the difference and what is better?
- 20120: How can you make the minutes (arrival and departure times) easier to read in the graphic timetable on the monitor?
- 20130: What is the meaning of the symbols in the head of the graphic timetable?
- 20131: Where can I define the speed displayed in the graphic timetables header? Which speed is displayed?
- 20150: How can you print out 24h at a time?
- 20250: How to enter block, entry, exit and intermediate signals?
- 20251: Which option is available in FBS to model trains with a very small train following distance (e.g. 120sec)? Are there possibilities to use "Moving Block"?
- 20273: How to enter an end point?
- 20274: How can terminus stations be created / taken into account in FBS, or how can a turning within a journey be displayed?
- 20275: Which tunnel cross-section must be specified when defining two single-track tunnels on an otherwise double-track line? Do two single-track lines even have to be created for the tunnel section?
- 20323: Two (or three) different train merge during the route. If all three trains are entered separately on the part of the route where they are coupled together conflicts occur. How can FBS know that all trains are coupling together?
- 20324: When a train is inserted, predefined stops on demand are not marked by x.
- 20342: If you manually change the stop time of a train, the next time you search for a train path, it jumps back to the regular stop. Can you keep a manual change to the stay?
- 20350: I would like to create a part line between the railway stations of a graphic timetable, but FBS cuts the signs of the arrival / departure times to the left and right of the train stations. How can this be prevented?
- 20400: A train is to use the opposite track over a part of the runway in a two-track line. How can this be defined or mapped in FBS?
- 20503: Why can a train have different speed profiles for travel time calculation and for driver's timetables?
- 20550:How can a train be assigned to another engine without affecting slot?
- 20551: How can the train parts be duplicated / copied?
- 20552: What are the possibilities to automatically include only a certain train part in the case of multiple traction in the circulation plan?
- 20553: What additional mandatory settings regarding the re-use are available for train parts?
- 20554: Is it possible to manually enter the train's load, length, maximum speed and days of service in the train data?
- 20558: How does FBS calculate the relevant gradient for the minimum braking percentage?
- 20559: How does FBS calculate the parking braking percentage (required parking brake effect, "Sawing lines" in the driver's timetable)?
- 20564: You want to start a train at an earlier train station without changing the existing path?
- 20570: You can assign multiple speed profiles to a train. You can also create speed profiles composed of several others ("macro profiles"). What is the difference?
- 20571: What is the difference between a basic profile and an additional profile? Why is there a distinction between increasing and decreasing additional profiles?
- 20572: What do the settings "profile is only applicable to vehicles that meet the condition(s)" and "profile is mandatory for vehicles that meet at least one condition" on the register side function do?
- 20573: What is the use of speed profile function "Valid for trains using catenary or third rail"?
- 20574: I have to plan a train on the opposite track and need a speed profile for the track. Should I create a "new" speed profile or make the profile of the control track also valid for the siding?
- 20608: How can one adjust the "timetable elements" e.g.(120/DB.232/800t) are not automatically displayed on every (new) train in the schedule? How can one obtain e.g. the length of the train or number of seats in the timetable elements?
- 20620: What is the "minimum remaining period" that can be set at general network data (ALT+V in the overview window) in the tab Techn. data?
- 20621: Why is the "30s rule" (minimum remaining period of 30s) also to be taken into account in the timetable construction even though it has already been taken into account by DB Netz AG when setting the permissible speeds?
- 20630: How can you enter train running reports for train control?
- 20631: How can you change the symbols or abbreviations for train run reports in the graphic and driver's timetable?
- 20632: How can traffic times concerning train departure and arrival, differentiating from the operational times be allocated to a train? Are the traffic times transmitted at the RailML export?
- 20806: Can the operating performance ("train kilometre") also be calculated for "tariff kilometres" differing from the distances?
- 20870: Is energy regeneration taken into account in the calculations?
- 20871: Is energy regeneration taken into account in the calculations?
- 20899:Double-clicking on a line in the "Show Arrival / Departure Times" window opens only one remark field. How can you enter a time here?
- 21000: How can courses of track be modified by surcharges?
- 21501: I have to split a larger number of trains into two... three layers, but I do not want to "handle" each train individually. Is there a simpler way?
- 21502: What do the operation day tags "vS" and "nS" mean and what must be considered when using them?
- 21503: Is it possible to hide the trains for one direction of travel in the graphic timetable?
Questions on the interval graphics
- 41101: How can you subsequently create more or less space between the clocked lines in an interval's graphic, e.g. if the original arrangement of the junctions was too narrow?
- 41102: When trying to insert clocked lines into the interval graphics, no clocked lines are displayed or the clocked lines that are to be inserted are not displayed. What is the reason?
- 41103: I created an interval graphic. Afterwards there were changes in the timetables. How can the interval graphic now be synchronised with the timetable?
- 41104: I would like to replenish a station in the interval graphic subsequently and connected it with existing interval lines. Which steps are necessary?
Questions on the railML interface
- 61020: I need a railML® file with operating station numbers / IBNR. What settings do you need to use when exporting?
- 61022: In my railML-file, the same station abbreviation/ station number (IBNR) is used several times. How can that be?
- 61030:The program in which the railML® data is read must recognize which trains are "passenger journeys". How is that possible?
- 61040:In the FBS-RailML interface there are three possibilities for labeling direct connections. What are the differences?
- 61050: In my railML file the same train number occurs several times? How are trains clearly identified in railML?
- 61060: How can railML detect whether a train is traveling in direction 1 or direction 2?
- 61070: How can shunting movements be displayed in FBS and how does this affect RailML Export?