Transportation Analytics
We find that many railroad customers are not realizing the full value from their transportation software, tools and data. This can impede growth, impact customer service and increase costs.
NELS posesses a deep understanding of rail industry processes and related data systems. We have the know-how to jump-start new initiatives, evaluate existing processes, identify improvement opportunities, extract intellegence from raw transactional data, improve transactional work flow and quantify inefficiencies to eliminate unnescessary costs.
Our approach involves fully understanding your business processes and objectives while employing a team approach to help you evaluate the best methods to ensure efficiency. We are skilled in inventoring and mining your existing data assets. We apply our analytical capabilities to provide insights into your current operation -- quantifying areas requiring attention.
We can help you migrate, integrate, enrich and validate your rail data. We have particular strength in integrating stove-pipe systems applications and helping you implement new systems.
We apply this approach to:
- Capacity Analysis and Forecasting
- Service Reliability -- Identification of Choke Points/Service Vulnerabilities
- Asset Utilization and Fleet Sizing
- Safety and Risk Management
- Cost Allocation and Cost Reduction Opportunities
NELS also provides transportation analytics as an on-demand service. NELS has the processing capabilities, models and experience needed to support the most challenging analytical requirements without the unnescessary expense of doing it in-house.
Risk Management
NELS has developed processes to manage the risks associated with the transport of hazardous materials by rail, including Crude Oil, LPG and Rail Sensitive Security Materials (RSSM) encompassing commodities classified as Toxic Inhalants (TIH), Explosives and Spent Nuclear materials, explicitly identified in Association of American Railroads Circular OT-55.
NELS has spent the last seven years focused on delivering processes and related information systems to improve the intelligence and vigilance over the transport of hazardous materials. NELS processes have been adopted and deployed by the U.S. DHS/TSA on a national scale. Richard E Flynn, NELS Principal has 43 years or rail industry experience and is acknowledged as a subject matter expert in this area.
NELS has listened carefully to the evolving dialog following the Lac-Megantic, Quebec CBR incident, just as it did following the 2005 TIH incident in Graniteville, South Carolina. NELS believes it can be of immediate assistance to rail stakeholders needing to address specific challenges relative to rail safety and security.