FREIGHT CAR CLEARINGHOUSE EXPERIMENT. EVALUATION OF THE FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION

The freight Car Clearinghouse Experiment which was started in September 1974 is still in operation. It is a cooperative undertaking by the Southern, Missouri Pacific, and Milwaukee Railroads to improve car utilization. These railroads have been granted a temporary exemption from Car Service Rules 1 and 2 to allow these railroads to use each other's cars as though they were their own. The principal results of the evaluation of the first year of operation are: (1) the Clearinghouse has reduced empty car movements by about 5 million car miles which has an economic value of $700,000 at 14found per car mile; (2) the economic value of expected future benefits from the continued operation of the Clearinghouse as presently constituted is about $800,000 per year in car day benefits and $640,000 per year in car mile savings; and (3) because of the success of this Clearinghouse Experiment, seven additional railroads have now joined, bringing total membership to ten.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by the FRA's Office of Policy and Program Development, U.S. DOT, and prepared through the FRA/AAR Car Utilization Program. See also RRIS 21 139447 7701 and 24A 152669 7702.
• Corporate Authors:

  ADD Systems

  2704 Easton Drive
  Burlingame, CA  United States  94010

  Association of American Railroads

  50 F Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001-1564

  Federal Railroad Administration

  Office of Policy and Program Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1977-2-24

Media Info

• Pagination: 91 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Car service rules; Contract rates; Empty railcars; Industry structure; Railcar distribution; Railcar operations; Railcar utilization; Regulations; Utilization
• Identifier Terms: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad; Missouri Pacific Railroad; Southern Railway; U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission
• Old TRIS Terms: Car cycles; Empty car distribution; Government regulations; Operating strategies; Per diem rates
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Law; Railroads; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00153370
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: AAR-R-259, FRA/OPPD-77-2
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FR-65146
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 17 1977 12:00AM