Railroad

With ever changing fuel costs and sensitivity to environment preservation, railroad is now the most preferred option for freight transport (small or large loads) over short or long distances. Efficiency of operations, punctuality, maximization of resource utilization and visibility to operations are the key factors required to keep pace with the future.

  Challenges

  • Increased demand on already congested railway sections
  • Shift in the load types from long distance rake loads to short distance less than a truck load
  • Speedy and punctual operations for changed load patterns
  • Improved client service, real time availability of Customer Information
  • Improving efficiency and resource utilization to combat increasing costs
  • Increasing efficiency for reducing fuel costs and helping the green environment cause service

What TCS Provides

TCS can help its business partners:

  • optimize the utilization of railway sections, terminals as well as rolling stock
  • schedule track maintenance with minimum impact to the operations
  • provide real time schedule and location information to their customers
  • use innovative technology application to reduce loading / unloading turn around for virtual capacity improvement
  • manage and develop their IT infrastructure

NEXT STEPS

From aligning your IT with your business needs to an end-to-end strategy for transforming your enterprise, TCS has the world-class experience and expertise that you need. Contact a Consultant today

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White Papers

Railway Track Maintenance: Role and Scope of IT

This paper explores opportunities of IT-enabled solutions that would help railroad companies in efficient and cost-effective track maintenance.

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Case Based Reasoning to Automate Manually Controlled Situations

This paper illustrates how repetitive instances of manual decision-making can be automated using the Case Based Reasoning technique.