Dude, Where's My Railcar?
Dude, Where's My Railcar?
Wabtec innovation addresses a decades-long blind spot in freight rail: Visibility into railcar location, status, and condition.
A hole in the bucket
Freight rail holds a number of well-documented advantages over trucking and other modes of transport, including superior:
Efficiency – Rail consumes about 4x less fuel than trucks. Cost-effectiveness – Rail has a significantly lower cost-per-ton-mile than truck. Environmental Health and Safety – Rail emits about 75% fewer GHG emissions than trucking and is up to 28x safer on a ton-mile basis.1 An oft-cited figure from the Association of American Railroads puts this all in perspective, estimating that an additional 83 million trucks would be needed on U.S. roads if railroads did not move freight.
And no one wants that.
Yet, in a 2020 Oliver Wyman survey of large rail shippers, 100% of executive respondents found trucking superior to rail on all attributes related to “customer experience,” including on-time performance/reliability, proactive problem resolution and accountability, and shipment visibility.
Freight rail operators, as well as their customers, know their mode’s many strengths. But the time is now to address the weaknesses. Shipment visibility, which impacts many dimensions of the customer experience, tops the list.
Sure, it may have been funny for two young partiers to ask, “Dude, where’s my car?,” but not being able to provide that information – and more – quickly, confidently, and with precision to today’s demanding freight rail customers is no laughing matter.
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