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The North American railroad industry is beginning to implement new, advanced train control technologies that will significantly change railroad operations. Collectively, these technologies are referred to as the Advanced Train Control Systems (ATCS). Burlington Northern Railroad's specific version of ATCS is called the Advanced Railroad Electronics System (ARES). In an extensive operations analysis, Burlington Northern found that it could use ARES to greatly reduce costs or improve service, or a little of both. To determine the optimal course of action, the railroad conducted a market study to determine the value of better service. The study results indicated that customers were willing to pay much more for small improvements in service. Burlington Northern's market managers disputed this, believing that better service would not significantly increase prices or market share. Meanwhile, ARES operations analysis indicated that operating improvements could be targeted very precisely using the new technology. Travel time improvements could be allocated at will among various classes of trains. Given these results, Burlington Northern should concentrate its initial implementation of ARES functionality on reducing cycle times for bulk commodity trains. This will result in the need for fewer coal sets to move a given amount of coal. Then, the railroad will receive the certain payoff of reduced assets as opposed to the uncertain payoff of increased revenue. As implementation proceeds, Burlington Northern should use ARES capabilities to test the value of improving service. Then implementation strategies can be adjusted to improve the outcome.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1314, Advanced Train Control Systems 1991: Proceedings of a Symposium, June 17-19, 1991, Denver, Colorado. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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Transportation Research Record

First International Symposium of Advanced Train Control

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Automatic train control; Bulk cargo; Coal; Cost effectiveness; Electronic equipment; Improvements; Level of service; Market research; Operations; Positive train control; Railroads; Travel time

BNSF Railway

Operational analysis

Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Railroads

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• ADVANCED ATP SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING TRAIN TRAFFIC DENSITY AND CONTROL EFFICIENCY
• ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS CONTROL FLOW DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION
• ADVANCES IN FLAT PANEL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICABILITY TO ATCS ON-BOARD TERMINALS
• ASTREE: A GLOBAL COMMAND, CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
• ATCS AT CP RAIL--STEADY AND MEASURED
• AUSTRAC: THE AUSTRALIAN ATCS
• AUTOMATIC TRAIN PROTECTION ON BRITISH RAIL: PRESENT PLANS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
• Decision Support System for Train Dispatching: An Optimization-Based Methodology
• DEVELOPMENT OF A WAYSIDE DETECTOR OPEN COMMUNICATION STANDARD
• ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF SYSTEM INTEGRATION
• IMPROVEMENT OF ATCS OPERATIONAL SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY THROUGH HUMAN FACTORS APPLICATIONS
• INTEGRATION OF ATCS WITH MIS
• MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPONENTS OF SUCCESSFUL ATCS
• MICROPROCESSOR DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR HEAVY-HAUL TRAINS IN ACTUAL OPERATION
• MIGRATION FROM CONVENTIONAL SIGNALING TO NEXT-GENERATION TRAIN CONTROL
• OPERATION CONTROL AND SIGNALING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-SPEED LINES
• PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS OF AN OPERATING ATCS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
• PILOT SYSTEM OF CARAT ON THE SANYO SHINKANSEN LINE
• PROTOTYPE AND TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR ATCS DATA COMMUNICATIONS
• RAILROAD OPERATION USING THE ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM
• REALIZING BENEFITS FROM ATCS USING A MOTIVE POWER INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM
• TRAIN CONTROL ON FRENCH RAILROADS
• UIC EUROPEAN TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM
• VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION FOR ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS