(Source: Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2012)
NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern, for example, is using software to help dispatchers and locomotive engineers make decisions that will help speed trains and save fuel. The railroad is using new analytics software from GE called RailConnect Transportation Management System and Movement Planner that gives the company real-time access to critical information so railroads can move freight faster. That information comes from a variety of sources such as the railroad’s network of sensors located on trains and tracks. It also incorporates outside information such as weather reports.
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