The manual presents practices and procedures currently employed by American railroads to control and improve car utilization. The manual is a product of Task 1 of the Freight Car Utilization Research and Demonstration Program. The scope of Task 1 was to identify, analyze, and document car utilization problems and the various solutions to these problems that have been undertaken. Aspects of car utilization involving management-organization and performance evaluation; car fleet control - the car fleet level, car distribution and assignment and car movement; and supporting functions - mechanical, marketing, customer practices, and data processing are presented. The manual can help reduce the development of duplicate car distribution efforts and can serve as a training aid to overt personnel on car utilization problems and techniques.


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    Title :

    Manual of Car Utilization Practices and Procedures. Freight Car Utilization Research-Demonstration Program


    Contributors:
    R. N. Steele (author) / F. E. Kuester (author) / W. R. Boyd (author) / W. H. Cramer (author)

    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    341 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English