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WHY SHOULD RAILROADS JOIN RAILPULSE?

The RailPulse platform provides real-time data on railcar location and condition to help railroads optimize fleet utilization and improve safety.

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DEMURRAGE USE CASES FOR RAILROADS

Demurrage Bill Verification via Geofencing

Geofences around customer facilities track railcar arrivals and departures, providing lessors and shippers with a shared record source that can be used to verify or dispute railroad-generated demurrage bills.

ADVANTAGES:
Easier Demurrage Accounting

Demurrage Management on Empty Unit Train Returns

Monitoring unload timing on multi-car unit trains supports efficient equipment utilization and terminal throughput while helping consignees avoid demurrage charges on empty returns to railroads.

ADVANTAGES:
Fleet Analytics | Easier Demurrage Accounting

RAILPULSE BENEFITS FOR RAILROADS INCLUDE:

BETTER PIPELINE MANAGEMENT

Railroads can more easily monitor ETAs and empty/loaded events to control railcar pipelines in transit to optimize asset management and fleet utilization.

RAILROAD USE CASE

Lost Car Located via GPS

A Class I carrier lost a soybean meal car on a forgotten siding; RailPulse GPS pinpointed its exact location relative to local streets, enabling retrieval and delivery within hours instead of additional weeks of delay.

Value For Railroads

IMPROVED LOGISTICS INTELLIGENCE

Lost efficiency for crews & railcars occurs before/during/after railroad interchange. Telematics greatly increases visibility of the physical interchange process & notification.

RAILROAD USE CASE

Unit Train Handed to Wrong Railroad — Caught Early

GPS data was the only method that revealed a 100-car unit train had been misrouted to the wrong carrier — caught before it left the interchange track, avoiding a multi-day delay and reroute at the border.

Value For Railroads

FLEET ANALYTICS

Advanced analytics deliver insight into fleet-specific usage patterns and empty/loaded visibility for data-driven decision making.

RAILROAD USE CASE

Chicago Network Health via Geofences (RCPE Clay Fleet)

Interchange geofences placed around Chicago measure dwell time for a fleet generating 4,000 of 7,000 annual loads through that hub, serving as a proxy for Class I network health.

Value For Railroads

SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

Railroads can monitor railcar health and detect potentially dangerous track conditions, resulting in fewer derailments, reduced hazmat spills, earlier detection of leakage, etc.

RAILROAD USE CASE

Handbrake Patterns
Identifies how often handbrakes are improperly left engaged, informing refresher training to reduce wheelset changeouts.
Value For Railroads

IMPROVED OPERATIONAL INSIGHTS

Railroads can know whether handbrakes are released, doors or hatches are open/closed, railcars are overloaded, loads are imbalanced, impacts occur, etc.

RAILROAD USE CASE

Bad-Ordered Car & CLM Discrepancy

CLM reporting falsely showed a bad-ordered car as placed at the customer, masking the problem; RailPulse tracing revealed the true holding-yard location and delay, helping force resolution with the Class I.

Value For Railroads

EASIER DEMURRAGE ACCOUNTING

RailPulse’s geofence timestamps and demurrage accounting capabilities help railroads invoice and resolve storage and demurrage disputes.

RAILROAD USE CASE

Demurrage Bill Verification via Geofencing
Geofences around customer facilities track railcar arrivals/departures, giving lessors, shippers and RailPulse rail carriers shared data to verify or dispute railroad-generated demurrage bills.

RAILPULSE RAILROAD DATA AND ANALYTICS

The RailPulse platform delivers advanced capabilities to drive your business:

  • Qualitative railcar location tracking (at intermediate yard, serving yard, line of road, etc.)
  • Inbound empties visibility
  • Entire rail route ETA algorithm
  • Enhanced demurrage accounting
  • Storage-in-transit management interface
  • Handbrake, open/close, door/hatch, and hard impact alerts

CONTINUOUS MONITORING TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE

The RailPulse team continuously monitors the telemetry devices that are reporting to the platform and works proactively with our telemetry vendor partners to ensure that those devices are functioning correctly and delivering the data that our subscribers rely on. We regularly monitor the service that RailPulse and our certified vendors are delivering and develop continuous improvement plans if we fall short of our shared service level commitments. Our goal is to free our subscribers from the effort of monitoring their telemetry devices so that they can focus on using the data to improve their rail shipping experience.

      CONTINUOUS MONITORING TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE

      The RailPulse team continuously monitors the telemetry devices that are reporting to the platform and works proactively with our telemetry vendor partners to ensure that those devices are functioning correctly and delivering the data that our subscribers rely on. We regularly monitor the service that RailPulse and our certified vendors are delivering and develop continuous improvement plans if we fall short of our shared service level commitments. Our goal is to free our subscribers from the effort of monitoring their telemetry devices so that they can focus on using the data to improve their rail shipping experience.

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          Whether you’re a shipper, lessor or railroad, the end-to-end RailPulse platform and standardized infrastructure makes doing business together easier by providing a shared source of truth that supports higher levels of visibility, transparency and collaboration across the entire North American rail ecosystem.

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            JOIN THE RAILPULSE MOVEMENT

            A Shared Source of Truth for All Rail Stakeholders.
            Whether you’re a shipper, lessor or railroad, the end-to-end RailPulse platform and standardized infrastructure makes doing business together easier by providing a shared source of truth that supports higher levels of visibility, transparency and collaboration across the entire North American rail ecosystem.

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