Open-Source Solutions: The Secret to Railroad Technology Affordability
With recent technological advancements, the rail industry has begun the integration of technology-enabled solutions that benefit their operations. However, before any railroad invests in technology, they must have...
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...
2020 in the Rear-View
2020 has been a tough year as the Global pandemic interrupted the ‘normal’ ways of doing business. The impact on people’s lives will be felt long into the future. This year has highlighted how much we rely and take for granted our connections with friends and colleagues...
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 ...
Track Inspection and Maintenance Transformation: From Firefighting to Proactive Planning
Maintaining railway tracks and keeping them in a good working condition throughout the year requires a highly coordinated effort on part of the rail inspectors and maintainers, track managers, and executive decision makers...
Top 3 Factors to Consider for Track Inspection Software Selection
Track inspection and maintenance operations have many aspects that can benefit greatly by implementing the right technology solutions to automate critical parts of the operations. In this blog, we’ll share 3 key factors to consider while assessing track inspection and maintenance software...
Key Challenges of Track Maintenance and How to Resolve them
Track inspection and maintenance are critical to railroad companies’ success and safety track record. In this post we will discuss two most important challenges of track maintenance and share suggestions to overcome these challenges. 1. Schedule Planning Railroad tracks extend ...
Linear Asset Management Platform: A Suite of Apps for Railroads
Railroads have a unique challenge at their hands: managing linear assets instead of traditional asset inventories. It’s only logical that they use a specialized system to manage and maintain the geographically dispersed assets instead of using the systems made for ...
Data Management for Linear Assets: Case for Edge Processing
Collecting and processing data efficiently is central to good linear asset management. In general, the more data we collect on linear assets, the more accurate analytics we can run and the better picture we get for the real-time state of ...