Deutsche Bahn AG: The MultiRail Freight Edition system was licensed by the special planning group (Volks- und Verkehrswirtschaft – ZKE 3) based in Frankfurt Germany. The ZKE 3 group analyzed their operating plan with MultiRail-FE to determine if the system could be used as by the large North American freight railroads to completely re-design its service plan to increase operating efficiency and reduce costs. It may later be used to identify and analyze multi-national freight corridors throughout the EU
Primary MultiModal Manager: Kevin Foy

Norfolk Southern: In a widely distributed press release on January 23, 2001, Norfolk Southern announced that as part of its restructuring, MultiModal has been retained to redesign Norfolk Southern's service network. In the NS press release, they referred to MultiModal as "…a railroad consulting firm with a successful track record of helping railroads reduce operating costs while improving service levels." Since arriving on site at Norfolk Southern, MultiModal consulting staff, using MultiRail software, has begun to implement new traffic routing, blocking and classification (marshalling) strategies which should result is savings for Norfolk Southern in excess of $200 million USD per year in 2002.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Jason Kuehn

FGC Barcelona: Ferrocarrills de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) is the commuter rail authority for the Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area. This is an intensive passenger service operation, with approximately 800 trains per day on a 145 Km network. This installation was completed in June of 2000 and all long term and daily timetable planning is accomplished using MultiRail. Previous to the use of MultiRail, service planning had been done with Excel spreadsheets and AutoCAD software for string-line diagrams. Now all of the timetables, string lines and crew planning/reports are managed in the MultiRail environment.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Kevin Foy

SEPTA, Philadelphia: SEPTA is one of the largest passenger operators in North America with carrying over 106,000 passengers and 590 trains per day. They operate a combination of commuter, light rail, trolley and subway trains throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania. SEPTA is currently in the process of installing and training on the MultiRail-PE product and will use the system for the development and distribution of all timetable information. The train data will be fed into SEPTA’s timetable publishing system. MultiRail will also feed the data required for the passenger platform notification system and the crew accounting system.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Kevin Foy

Line Capacity Studies: In over a dozen different studies, our FastTrack II line capacity simulation model and its RDCAM predecessor have been used on a consulting basis to examine thousands of miles of rail lines, and hundreds of separate scenarios, including studying the impact of adding commuter service to high density freight line. Clients have included Conrail, Norfolk Southern, CSX Transportation, Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railroad, Ferrovia Sul Atlantico (Brazil), MRS Logistica (Brazil), and the Association of American Railroads.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Paul Wright

New Jersey Transit: As part of a team with A&L Associates, Inc., and KKO Associates, Inc., MultiModal participated in an analysis of New Jersey Transit's maintenance scheduling and management processes. The project focused on developing a set of tools and an analytic framework that would allow NJT to examine different approaches to maintenance management, with the ultimate goal of identifying ways to increase the effective size of the passenger fleet through improved availability. Issues examined included locations where maintenance was done, the scheduling of the maintenance processes, and the idle time equipment experienced within the maintenance complexes. MultiModal successfully designed and implemented an inter-site maintenance simulation tool that allowed NJT to project total equipment availability based on various performance measures for each maintenance facility and activity, and the locations where such maintenance would take place. This tool was applied by the other members of the project team to examine a number of alternative scenarios.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Carl Van Dyke

Transportation Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM): TFM uses MultiRail Freight Edition for management of Service Design. We have also done extensive consulting for TFM. As part of the pre-bid planning for the privatisation of this former component of the Mexican National Railways, MultiModal developed the proposed operating plan using MultiRail. This included translation of a Kingsley Group produced traffic forecast into a day specific origin-destination traffic database, the development of a network representation of the TFM, and the design of the blocking plan and train schedules. This information was used to both validate the operating plan component, and drive the financial analysis. MultiModal then provided on an on-going basis consulting support for the continued maintenance and refinement of TFM’s operating plan.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Philip Rowe

Union Pacific Railroad: UP is a major user of the MultiRail Freight Edition for service and network planning throughout the corporation. For Union Pacific, MultiModal provided software and consulting support that played an integral role in the development of Union Pacific’s merger operating plan (Southern Pacific), including blocking and train design. This process provided many of the fundamental statistics that drove the financial analysis, including train statistics, crew statistics, fuel, car miles, yard work loads, etc. The analysis also played a critical role in identifying the need to perform environmental impact analysis at various locations on the railroad. This process is generally credited with having established a new quality standard for merger filings.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Carl Van Dyke

Port Terminal Study: For a south-eastern port facility a number of ad hoc simulation tools were developed and applied to study the impact of changes to the port’s rail related physical plant. This included addition of receiving/departure tracks, addition of a connection, and examination of the impact of these changes on train operations and rail-highway conflicts. Work required gathering operational data from two different railroads.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Paul Wright

Canadian Pacific Railway: CP uses MultiRail for all service design and operational planning. A MultiModal consulting team worked with CP to develop a zero-based operating plan (Genesis Project) that attempted to rethink the fundamental way in which CP operates. This process started with a complete review and redesign of the blocking plan, and then progressed through the design of the train schedules and assessment of impacts on customer service. CP implemented the Genesis plan the second half of 2000.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Jason Kuehn

Burlington Northern Santa Fe: The MultiRail Freight Edition is installed in various departments at BNSF’s Ft. Worth headquarters. MultiModal worked with BNSF to rapidly develop a complete zero-based operating plan for its current merchandise-operating plan. This included network development, traffic database creation, blocking plan development, and train schedules. BNSF is now in the process of integrating MultiRail with their mainframe systems.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Jason Kuehn

Railroad Development Corporation: MultiModal has provided on-going analysis support and operating/marketing expertise to RDC in its evaluation and bid development efforts in Australia. This has included examination of the subject property, study of current operations, assessment of current and future business levels, support for the financing efforts, and preparation of bid materials.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Jason Kuehn

Canadian National Railway: MultiModal played a key role in the design, modeling, and evaluation of the CN/IC merger-operating plan. As with UP/SP and NS/Conrail, this role included validation of the operating plan, generation of numerous statistics and performance measures, generation of materials for inclusion in the STB filing, and support for the environmental analysis effort. In addition, CN personnel used MultiRail 3.0 for their groundbreaking 1998 operating plan re-structuring that established CN as a scheduled railroad.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Philip Rowe

Canadian National – BNSF Merger Filing: MultiModal led a Chicago-based team that did the design, modeling and evaluation of the CN/BNSF operating plan. As in the previous merger projects, MultiModal used MultiRail and applied its staff expertise and computer modeling capabilities to validate the new operating plan and generate the various reports, graphics and statistics for the cost/benefit analysis for the merger. Additionally, the output of the modeling supported the proposed STB filings for environmental analysis and the general definition of the post-merger operating plan.
Primary MultiModal Manager: Jason Kuehn

General Licensee Projects: MultiModal licenses its software to numerous clients for in-house use, and provides on-going support and software enhancement to these clients. Our clients have led numerous projects on an in-house basis. These include development of zero-based operating plans by CSX, CN, and the St. Lawrence & Hudson division of the CP, Mexican acquisition studies by UP, on-going plan maintenance at CSX, NS, UP, CP, Day 1 operating plan development work at CSX, intermodal schedule guide development at NS, and numerous other similar efforts.