MANUAL OF CAR UTILIZATION PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES. FREIGHT CAR UTILIZATION RESEARCH-DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM

The manual presents practices and procedures currently employed by American railroads to control and improve car utilization. The manual is a product of Task 1 of the Freight Car Utilization Research and Demonstration Program. The scope of Task 1 was to identify, analyze, and document car utilization problems and the various solutions to these problems that have been undertaken. Aspects of car utilization involving management-organization and performance evaluation; car fleet control - the car fleet level, car distribution and assignment and car movement; and supporting functions - mechanical, marketing, customer practices, and data processing are presented. The manual can help reduce the development of duplicate car distribution efforts and can serve as a training aid to overt personnel on car utilization problems and techniques.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • (PC A15/MF A01)
• Corporate Authors:

  Association of American Railroads

  59 East Van Buren Street
  Chicago, IL  United States  60605

  Federal Railroad Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Steele, R N
  • Kuester, F E
  • Boyd, W R
  • Cramer, W H
• Publication Date: 1976-6-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 341 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight cars; Level of service; Manuals; Policy; Railroad cars; Research; Transportation operations; Utilization
• Uncontrolled Terms: Services; Transportation management
• Subject Areas: Policy; Railroads; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00146451
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: AAR-R-234, FRA/OPPD-76/8
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FR-65146
• Files: NTIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 16 2003 12:00AM