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Introduction to OpenTrack Rail Visibility

Read this guide to learn what's included in OpenTrack Rail Visibility.

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Written by Christian Petroske
Updated over 3 months ago

Accurate, timely rail visibility is essential to ensure smooth rail moves and final mile operations at rail terminals.

With OpenTrack Rail Visibility, you get:

  1. Precision ETAs

  2. Crucial milestones: Loading, Departure, Sightings, Arrival

  3. Last Free Day, Availability Notifications

  4. Direct Connections with All Class 1 Railroads

  5. Direct Connection to Railinc

Precision ETAs

OpenTrack’s rail ETAs are pinpoint-accurate, enabling you to plan better.

Why OpenTrack's ETAs are better

  1. We collect the inland ETA directly from the rail carriers, ocean carriers, and Railinc.

  2. We select the best ETA by evaluating the ETAs provided from all sources against their historical performance and current conditions.

  3. We avoid reporting unrealistic ETAs by taking into account real dwell and transit times.

  4. When no ETA is present, we use advanced models to predict it with high accuracy.

Crucial milestones: Loading, Departure, Sightings, Arrival

Benefit from OpenTrack’s automated reporting to get these key data points while saving work for your operations team:

Last Free Day, Availability notifications

OpenTrack reports the actual Last Free Day at Rail Facility directly from the carrier. So you can optimize pickups without the guesswork and without the risk.

With availability notifications, you’ll know precisely when to pick up your containers at the rail yard.

You can also expect to receive the chassis number, which can help you make sure chassis invoices are correct.

Direct Connections with All Class 1 Railroads

OpenTrack has direct connections with all class 1 railroads in North America. These connections allow us to report accurate sightings, LFDs, ETAs, demurrage, and more.

Direct Connection to Railinc

We’re also integrated with Railinc so that you’ll have rail data even if your shipment is not moving with a class 1 railroad.

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