TIMPS Addresses Transport Canada’s New Track Safety Rules
Ensuring safety in railroad operations is one of the key underlying ideas that spawned our flagship product – TIMPS (Track Inspection, Maintenance, Planning, and Scheduling). The recent update to track safety rules issued by Transport Canada echoes our...
Inspect & Test Railroad Signals/Crossings – With an App
Recent advancements in technology have created avenues for railroads to leverage mobile applications to improve performance and overall organizational efficiency. TekTracking’s Signal/Crossing Inspection & Testing Efficiency (SITE) is one such innovation...
Signal & Crossing Inspection: The Technological Upgrade
One of the top goals for every railroad and transit organization worldwide is to minimize critical component failures that can negatively impact train schedules. Ensuring timely and safe train operations produces the greatest efficiencies in running a railroad, and the ...
The Data Challenge and Remote Condition Monitoring Opportunities
Efficient, safe, and profitable rail operations depend on several things, among which one key factor is the asset health of railway infrastructure. The most common barrier to ensuring good asset health is that many transit agencies and freight railroads don’t ...
Safety Benefits of Linear Asset Management
Safety is the front and center of the technology innovations in the railroad industry. Most companies spend millions on enhancing and introducing safety features into their solutions annually. In this post we’ll discuss 3 ways that a smart linear asset ...
How to Identify and Minimize the Hidden Costs of Asset Inventory
Many transit agencies in the US are scrambling to identify and quantify the state of good repair for infrastructure assets like rail, turnouts, switches, frogs, roadbed, interlockings, grade crossings, catenary poles and wire, and the dozens of additional capital assets ...
3 Ways to Overcome Resistance to Technology Change
Linear Asset Management Solutions provide huge benefits to railroad companies in terms of increased efficiency, safety, and reliability. If your company is still weighing the options for updating or augmenting your existing Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system with Linear Asset ...
Linear Asset Management: The Missing Link in EAM
In the world of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), it is common practice to use a single system that claims to manage all assets within the transit authority’s operation. These systems are focused on hierarchical relationships of sub-systems and critical components ...
Top 3 Essential Features of a Good Linear Asset Management Solution
Traditional EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) systems enlisted by large Transit agencies are typically focused around the largest and most complex assets that the agency must track such as buildings and rolling stock. These systems do well at linking costs, maximizing ...