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Trainspotter is used today by shippers to help manage rail transportation networks.
By combining rail location messages from railroads (or the AAR) with corporate
shipment data, Trainspotter provides users with an easy-to-use Windows
program that helps manage shipments and equipment.
This product addresses the needs of companies who want to measure and maximize the performance
of their transportation resources and optimize the utilization of their
rail equipment, thereby improving customer service.
Trainspotter can provide your organization with the following:
Shipment Tracking and Monitoring
Trainspotter combines railcar movement records (CLM's) with shipment data in an easy-to-use and
intuitive interface for the end user. Our goal is to help you effectively
manage your shipments and easily identify problem areas within the transportation network:
· Idle cars, misdirected cars, lost shipments
· Empty car forecast
· On time statistics per corridor
· Late shipments
· Management reports: cars per customer, volumes per month, lease costs, maintenance costs, and more
Exception Management
Built-in alerts identify problem areas quickly and effectively. In addition, users can
customize their own alerts and exceptions, and program specific actions
should certain events occur -- like sending a fax or an e-mail.
Transit Time
ETAs are based on historical performance for each corridor. Factors that influence transit
time on each segment are analyzed and used to predict ETAs.
Shipment Intelligence
Trainspotter builds a model of your shipments by analyzing and storing the statistics relevant
to the trip. By making use of these statistics, Trainspotter provides a
view of the shipment patterns for users to detect inefficiencies or trends.
Some of the reports available include:
· Idle car trends for loading point (and unloading point)
· Identify the most inefficient loading/unloading points based on historical trends
· Identify transit problem areas within the transportation network
· Identify which railroads move your shipments most effectively and consistently
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