GE Transportation and Aurizon, Australia’s largest rail freight operator, announced the successful implementation of GE Transportation’s Movement Planner into Aurizon Network’s Control Center. This signifies a milestone along Aurizon’s broader APEX solution implementation plan for rail network and supply chain management.
GE Transportation’s Movement Planner is an advanced software solution that provides real-time rail traffic planning and optimization, enabling freight to move more efficiently using existing rail networks. The solution considers multiple factors including train schedules, traffic-control systems and train movements relative to each other and then develops an optimized traffic plan for the trains throughout the network.
The roll-out began in April, and implementation across all nine control boards was recently completed. The solution is expected to improve network velocity, capacity, and on-time performance across Aurizon’s Central Queensland Coal Network – which supports more than 85 coal services daily across one of the most complex rail freight networks in the country. Early next year, Aurizon and GE Transportation plan to begin the initial implementation of subsequent planning and scheduling solutions.
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