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Increasing Capacity with Versant Object Database and RailEdge® Movement Planner

公司规模

1,000+

地区

America

国家

United States

产品

Versant Object Database
RailEdge® Movement Planner

技术栈

Object-oriented software system
Database Management

实施规模

Enterprise-wide Deployment

影响指标

Cost Savings
Environmental Impact Reduction
Productivity Improvements

技术

分析与建模 - 实时分析
应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据库管理和存储

适用行业

铁路与地铁

适用功能

物流运输

用例

预测性维护
实时定位系统 (RTLS)

服务

数据科学服务
系统集成

关于客户

Norfolk Southern Railroad is a major transporter in the eastern United States. It operates 2,500 trains per day over a 21,000-mile system serving every major container port in the region. With the Federal Railroad Administration expecting railroad freight traffic to double by 2020, Norfolk Southern is faced with the challenge of meeting this demand without expanding its existing tracks. The company aims to increase railroad capacity, velocity, and efficiency, increase average network train speed by 10 to 20 percent, and save millions of dollars in capital and expense.

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挑战

The Federal Railroad Administration is expecting railroad freight traffic to double by 2020. However, the U.S. railroad infrastructure cannot be expanded to keep pace with this demand. Railroads are confronted with meeting this demand in some other way. GE Transportation Systems, the global technology leader and supplier to the railroad industry, is addressing the problem with RailEdge® Movement Planner, an object-oriented software system incorporating the Versant Object Database. GE Transportation’s customer, Norfolk Southern Railroad, operates 2,500 trains per day over a 21,000-mile system serving every major container port in the eastern United States. Norfolk Southern expects to increase railroad capacity, velocity and efficiency with no new tracks, to increase average network train speed 10 to 20 percent, and to save millions of dollars in capital and expense.

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解决方案

GE Transportation Systems, the global technology leader and supplier to the railroad industry, provided a solution with RailEdge® Movement Planner, an object-oriented software system incorporating the Versant Object Database. The Versant Object Database provides significantly higher performance with RailEdge’s complex object models than a relational database. Objects with moderate complexity perform three-times faster, while objects with high levels of complexity, many-to-many relationships, perform more than thirty-times faster. RailEdge replicates and modifies objects—a heterogeneous mix of data types images, maps, sensor data, financial information, etc.—continuously coming into the Versant Object Database. Using the same object model for the application and the database, VOD provides significantly higher performance with RailEdge’s complex object models than a relational database.

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运营影响

RailEdge® Movement Planner creates a complete real-world model of the entire train system as well as a financial business model of the railroad within the Versant Object Database.
RailEdge continuously models and predicts rail system operation for eight hours in advance.
Taking over scheduling and routing from human operators, RailEdge improves fuel efficiency and achieves a two-to-four miles-per-hour increase in average train velocity.
RailEdge can move a ton of freight 486 miles on a gallon of fuel.
Norfolk Southern’s experience has been so compelling that it is expanding RailEdge throughout its entire 22-state and District of Columbia rail network.

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数量效益

A one-mile-per-hour improvement saves $200 million annually in capital and expense.
Objects with moderate complexity perform three-times faster with Versant Object Database, while objects with high levels of complexity, many-to-many relationships, perform more than thirty-times faster.

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