LOGISTICS TRANSPORTATION REVIEW9 MAY 2024In our operation, we started with a big road map followed by the installation of several IoT´s in a pilot yard, connected to an important client terminal. This year we expect to have the initial conclusions about the effectiveness of our service.To achieve customer expectations an integrated vision of the system is an obligation. And planning. And programming. At least. It demands tools a lot. The bad news is that in general the available tool does not fit every system and should be developed for each specific operation. To have a powerful integrated planning and programming tool has been a search happening since the 1980s. Despite some offered by the market they suffer the problem mentioned before and they do not fit quite well in our process. We are very close to developing a kind of solution in our company, in association with Wabtec. At last, focusing on just one of the big objectives railroads have in mind we should mention the unmanned cargo trains. We have the technologies to implant it but they are sparse. The challenge is to put all those things together. In MRS Logistica we have been operating an unmanned train since 2020 in a specific 8 km region with reliable and robust performance. It is a region that has zero people crossing the way and this is the main condition that permitted us to decide implanting the train. Our next goal is to teach the train to react immediately when an obstacle appears in front of it. We will have this this year.An integrated and automated operation is quite close in technology and far from the complete implementation at railroads. But there is no other path to follow. In the end, the customer will be served by a railroad, inserted in the whole logistics, at the technological level they deserve. An integrated and automated operation is quite close in technology and far from the complete implementation at railroads
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