AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK

COCKERILL. GESTION AUTOMATISEE D'UN PARC FERROVIAIRE

Organizing a daily traffic of 2,500 wagons and 72 locomotives scattered over 700 tracks forming a private network of 186 kms, is the task which the Traction Department of the Cockerill works at Liege was to face every day. The author explains how automatic management of this Traction Department has been facilitated: the accurate and rapid location of rolling economical vehicle turnaround, more rational rolling-stock and track maintenance, correct inputing of transport costs, and a significant reduction in paperwork.

• Publication Date: 1975-1

Language

• French

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 44-47
• Serial:
  • IBM-Informations
  • Issue Number: 75

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic train location; Industrial railroads; Information processing; Management information systems; Railcar operations; Railroad traffic; Train operations
• Old TRIS Terms: Train movements
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099774
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Railway Documentation, Selection of
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1975 12:00AM