Fairport, N.Y.-based RailComm says it has been selected "to provide and install a state-of-the-art car tracking and inventory management solution at Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks (TASD)."
RailComm says its Car Tracking System offers "a near real-time inventory management solution to actively manage inventory as it moves through the yard. Users benefit from having readily available data about train consist and location, while minimizing the need to walk the yard to ensure that switching movements correspond to the plan in place.
The company's selection, announced Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, "will offer TASD an understanding of car location and dwell times, increased accuracy of train movements, and quick location of specific cars within the facility," RailComm says.
The system will be comprised of multiple subsystems including RailComm's Yard Portal™ for vehicle recognition, detection system using axle counting technology, radio communication infrastructure, RailComm's Yard Inventory Manager web-based user interface, and RailComm's Domain Operations Controller (DOC®).
The Terminal Railway will benefit from RailComm's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. The model provides high availability of the applications that are hosted at RailComm's highly secure data center.