Described is an extensive TCS (transportation control system) project by which it is possible to switch a freight car in a computerized yard in less time than is used to take just to find a record of where it came from and where it was going to. Inventories and movements of cars for the entire system are maintained in a IBM 370/168 computer at headquarters. Data are then transmitted and processed on minicomputer subsystems in individual yards (= Yard and Terminal Subsystem).
MoPac control system speeds inventory and movement
Das MoPac-Steuerungssystem beschleunigt die Wagenbestandaufnahme und -Bewegung
Railway System Controls ; 5 , 10 ; 16-18
1974
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