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[[Norfolk Southern Train Dispatch Center - Atlanta, Georgia] [man speaking over radio]]
[[Hundreds of trains are dispatched from this location every day]]
[[woman on radio] [train whistle blows] [man on radio]]
[Hello, Birmingham. >>[man on radio] Hey, are you ready for this 226?]
[[male speaker] The US railroads have a big problem on their hands.]
[Over the course of the next 25 years,]
[[Lorenzo Simonelli - President & CEO, Ge Transportation]]
[there's going to be a doubling of the US freight requirement.]
[[♪♪] [male speaker] All railroads are faced with capacity issues]
[[Andy Siesenop - Transportation Planning, Norfolk Southern] as business increases,]
[[Simonelli] That's where Movement Planner as a GE solution comes into play.]
[It enables more locomotives to be on the same rail, move faster,]
[so your capacity actually increases.]
[[Siesenop] We're expecting to see velocity increases anywhere from 15% to 20%,]
[which equates to 3 or 4 miles per hour.]
[So every time we expand to a new corridor, we're going to see that corridor get better.]
[[male speaker] The software itself is doing what the dispatchers do.]
[The problem is that we're limited by the abilities of humans]
[to comprehend the large picture.]
[What Movement Planner does is it looks eight hours in advance]
[[Fred Ehlers - VP, Customer Service, Norfolk Southern]]
[and it tries to figure out what it can do to get that train back on schedule]
[without negatively impacting any of the other trains.]
[It starts out with a description of the railroad's operating plan--]
[[Scott Wills - Senior Systems Engineer, GE Transportation]]
[what flights are we supposed to run today? It can work that all out in a fraction of a second.]
[Movement Planner helps me see the best route to get trains to their destinations.]
[[Thomas Johnson - United Train Control System Coordinator, Norfolk Southern]]
[You can actually take one ton of freight 486 miles with one gallon of fuel.]
[That leads to improved emissions, and it helps the economy as well.]
[[♪♪] A lot of people have tried to do this,]
[but it takes two partners--one being a supplier, one being within the industry.]
[When we started this project many years ago,]
[we knew that we wanted to get to this holy grail of movement planning.]
[[Simonelli] It's a huge productivity gain for the railroad,]
[and it's a huge way to continue serving the market as it expands.]
