Cogent offers a variety of rail products and tools which provide a wide range of functionality for managing rail transportation. These are typically available as both software as well as software-hosted services running in Cogent’s Data Center. Specific products include:
Cogent’s Routing & Rating products offer dynamic rail rating and fuel surcharge calculation, routing/mileage computation, and integration components with APIs for development.
Visitrak is a comprehensive, web-based rail tracking and fleet management system. It automatically processes trip and sighting messages to provide accurate equipment status, ETA and performance/transit statistics. Additional functionality includes inventory replenishment planning, dwell calculations, BOL generation, and fleet sizing calculations.
The Rail Manager module provides management tools to track inbound cars to receiving and transfer facilities, spot and unload, communicate empty BOLs and switch instructions, measure dwell/demurrage and report product inventories for customers. These tools can be integrated with scanner technology and also with Visiship TMS to monitor rail-truck inventory draw down and replenishment planning. Cogent’s Inbound Rail Manager is ideal for terminals managing ethanol and for bulk transfer facilities.
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