Equipment Asset Management Working Committee Update EAMWC

Equipment Asset Management Working Committee Update

EAMWC n Meets three times a year n n n Feb, June, Oct Responsible for Car Hire and Car Service Rules Reports to SOMC and NEMC Safety Operations Management Committee n Network Efficiency Management Committee n

Current Projects n Damage and Defective Car Tracking System n n Car Hire Railroad Clearinghouse n n n Added Tanks to OT-5 circular (Jan 1, 2009) Development of central industry site to register private cars SCO 90 Review n n Proposal to settle private car mileage through RCH OT-5 Circular and Private Car Registration n n Joint EAMWC/ARB TAG Redesign of quarterly report delivery process Equipment Availability Clearinghouse n n Help carriers find uses for surplus equipment Will add functionality to include track storage capacity to EAC

n Damage and Defective Car Tracking System n Functionality Conversion from a paper defect card to an electronic one n Automates reporting, TOL, settlement, and disposition n n Programming is underway at Railinc Links to LCS n Links to UMLER n n Will delay implementation until June 2009

n Car Hire Railroad Clearinghouse Proposal to settle private car mileage through RCH n EAMWC June meeting, TAG was instructed to delay project until all CH Data Exchange could be passed through n Successful implementation on August 27 th n First settlement was September 25 n Second settlement was October 21 n n Will develop scorecard

n OT-5 Circular revision and Private Car Registration n n Added Tanks to OT-5 circular (Jan 1) Very controversial with customers and shipper associations n n n Met with NAFCA members National Grain Car Council RR Shipper Symposiums Chlorine Institute Tank Car Forum American Chemical Council Development of website to register private cars n n n One Central registration site Automate a very manually intensive paper process Support service planning

n SCO 90 Review n Redesign of quarterly report delivery process 25 year old technology n Mainframe reports delivered US mail n n Create SCO 90 outlet table FTP reports exchanged electronically n RR’s can automated outlet changes n n Internal Railinc project for 2009 TAG created to review process and recommend improvements n Project requirements under development n

n Equipment Availability Clearinghouse n Help carriers find uses for surplus equipment Request by Rail Institute Working Group (RIWG) n Software was implemented in October 2006 n Currently soliciting membership n n Supply offers – 4, 0 filled (410 cars) Demand requests – 1, 0 filled (100 cars) Will add functionality to include track storage capacity to EAC Railinc has developed business requirements and functional specifications for changes to the software n User acceptance testing will follow n

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