The AlphaRail Platform

Powered by targeted AI and AlphaRail’s state-of-the-art optimization engine, our full-stack rail delivery execution platform helps railroads deliver every rail customer’s railcar on time, every time

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Delivery Demand Capture

  • Offer and price expedited, priority delivery service tiers for railcars and rail customers on the rail network

  • Assign delivery priority by customer or by individual railcar

  • Customers can request and pay to prioritize specific railcars or entire pipelines

  • Delivery priority honored across the full network delivery execution plan until final delivery, within operating constraints

Delivery Execution Planning

  • Full-stack schedule generation: blocking, train formation, routing, crew, and locomotive assignment

  • Future-proofed optimization engine, AI-based ETA models, and selectable crew, route, and locomotive configurations generate highly accurate accurate and granular execution instructions across the entire network.

  • Plan up to 90+ days out, resolved daily and hourly

  • Tune the network target between service speed/quality and cost-efficiency

  • Re-plan in minutes when anything changes

  • Complete granular cost, revenue/profit, and operating-performance metrics by day or full planning horizon across trains and serving yards including full network on-time performance

  • Side-by-side plan performance metric comparison with selectable baseline and deltas

Live Interactive Map Monitoring

  • Interactive, track-level visualization of the entire operation

  • Every train, crew, railcar, yard, and customer on one map

  • Drill to a specific railcar's planned arrival at its specific customer

  • Railcar counts on-site at a customer down to the exact track

  • Per-customer inventory, dwell, and predicted dwell

  • Planned per-railcar delivery ETAs; live tracking once connected to operational data

  • Built for any employee, with customer access

Automated Crew Management

  • Automatic employee-to-train assignment under crew and work rules

  • Crew assignments viewable by day, week, and month across the full horizon

  • Demand-driven crew balancing with rebalance recommendations

  • Automatic reassignment to optimize staffing by yard

  • Crew cards with performance tracking and progression rewards

Automated Locomotive Fleet Management

  • Full fleet breakdown and management

  • Configurable locomotive service cycles

  • Automated locomotive assignment per train and crew across the full horizon

  • Assignments honor tonnage, fuel capacity, service-cycle, and yard rules

Railcar Inventory Engine

  • Live, network-wide railcar inventory snapshot

  • Track every car by location and individually as it moves through the network

  • Quantified dwell and demurrage metrics with alerts

Track Network Management

  • Track, classify, and assign the physical network — segments, yards, customers, interchanges

  • Edit track segments and customer/interchange spot and pull locations

  • Physical-track-accurate routing as the platform foundation

Customer & Interchange Analytics Profiles

  • Full-depth customer and interchange shipping and operational analytics

  • Operating-pattern tracking and prediction by day

  • AI-enhanced demand prediction and shipping behavior per customer

  • AI-enhanced dwell prediction and production behavior per customer

  • Interchange reliability and performance visibility

Operating Plan Rules and Constraint Integration and Management

  • Define and edit all operating rules, constraints, and preferences

  • FRA hours-of-service limits (daily, weekly, monthly)

  • Tonnage, capacity, operating-day, and yard-storage constraints

  • Ensures every schedule is feasible and matches real-world operating rules, regulations, and constraints

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