The report covers an evaluation of one of the concepts that has been developed to improve the efficiency of the nation's railroads and improve the productivity of the freight cars. The concept - Computerized Freight Car Scheduling (FCS) - was developed on the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MoPac). The pilot installation was on the heavily utilized corridor between Memphis, TN, and Ft. Worth, TX. The scope of the evaluation included surveys of MoPac employees, customers, connecting railroads, and industry leaders; a quantitative analysis of operational efficiency on the demonstration corridor; an assessment of the transferability of the system to another railroad; and a comparison of the MoPac system with the one utilized by the Canadian National Railroad. The study revealed that when operations on the corridor were compared with the remainder of the MoPac, improvement attributable to FCS was experienced in service reliability, transit time, yard detention, train miles, and yard engine hours. No improvement was measured in freight car utilization because the demonstration corridor was too small to influence car utilization on the MoPac system.
Evaluation of MOPAC'S Freight Car Scheduling System
1981
72 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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