{"id":12309,"date":"2022-06-14T16:55:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/visibility-with-railstate-its-time-for-rail-to-join-the-visibility-game\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:06:53","slug":"visibility-with-railstate-its-time-for-rail-to-join-the-visibility-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/visibility-with-railstate-its-time-for-rail-to-join-the-visibility-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Visibility with RailState: It\u2019s Time for Rail to Join the Visibility Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What do we mean when we say \u201crail visibility,\u201d and why does it matter? Think of it this way: when you drive your car, you might use an app \u2014 like Google Maps or Waze \u2014 to see what your route looks like. If there\u2019s congestion on your usual route, you might take a proposed alternative. You\u2019re able to refer to the app to see an updated ETA, as traffic patterns change. No surprises here! You\u2019ll (likely) arrive when expected. In terms of shipping: trucks have enough visibility to make strategic decisions while en route, which is why trucking is often a more dependable mode of transport than rail.<\/p>

Ships and airplanes also have network visibility; and they can always see what\u2019s going on, and where there might be congestion or problems. This allows the ships to change to a different port, if necessary, or the airplanes to switch to another airport. While this doesn\u2019t happen often with airlines, any sudden event \u2014 storms, for example \u2014 might cause the planes to need a new place to touch down. Visibility is crucial in this instance.<\/p>

When it comes to the railroad: you can trace your car and get an estimated ETA based on system average statistics, likely from two or three weeks ago<\/em>. Unlike the other modes of transportation, there aren\u2019t real-time<\/strong> updates on what the rail network looks like ahead of your shipment.<\/p>

Say there\u2019s a derailment \u2014 how would you know the cause and the effect? Is there a washout? Are trains being delayed? All you\u2019d know is where your car was in the last 24 hours. It could still be sitting there, not having moved. You\u2019d have no way of knowing.<\/p>

We\u2019re trying to fill this visibility gap<\/strong>. RailState\u2019s data affords customers the same amount of visibility for rail that\u2019s possible for the other modes of transportation. Our real-time data<\/strong> provides insight into the entire network \u2014 i.e. everything that\u2019s moving by rail. When you have network visibility, you have control over your shipments and operations. More control equates to less time and money lost to inefficiencies.<\/p>

It\u2019s time for rail to catch up. See what\u2019s up ahead, with RailState.:<\/p>

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When it comes to the railroad: you can trace your car and get an estimated ETA based on system average statistics, likely from two or three weeks ago. Unlike the other modes of transportation, there aren\u2019t real-time updates on what the rail network looks like ahead of your shipment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"item_id":"","pf_source_link":"","item_date":"","item_author":"","item_link":"","item_feat_img":"","item_wp_date":"","item_tags":"","source_publication_name":"","source_publication_url":"","nomination_count":"","sortable_item_date":"","pf_word_count":"","pf_forward_to_origin":"no-forward","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,66,88],"tags":[89,92,93,90],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-rail","category-railstate","category-railstate-fr-ca","tag-freight-fr-ca","tag-rail-fr-ca","tag-railroad-fr-ca","tag-shipping-2-fr-ca"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"nominators":[],"archiveOrgStatus":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12737,"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions\/12737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12309"},{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/www.railstate.com\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}