COMPUTERS GO "ON TRACK"

This is a report of an IBM seminar on computerized management of track maintenance. Discussions centered on the use of a data base in which the computer can sort, store, combine and compute information and run simulations of maintenance strategies. The experience of several railroads was reported, along with the use of computer studies of track problems confronting the United States Railroad Association in its restructuring of the Northeast railroads. It is noted that the computer input has frequently been gathered and compiled manually by railroads, but only the barest use of such information could be made. Computer technology is changing all this.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Murphy-Richter Publishing Company

  20 North Wacker Driver
  Chicago, IL  United States  60606
• Publication Date: 1975-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 27-30
• Serial:
  • Progressive Railroading
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: Trade Press Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-0817
  • Serial URL: http://www.progressiverailroading.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Data collection; Information processing; Inventory; Maintenance management; Maintenance of way; Maintenance practices; Planning; Simulation
• Old TRIS Terms: Computer analysis
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099801
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1976 12:00AM