Forced by necessity as one of the smallest Class I railroads and the most dependent on connections with the others, Canadian Pacific Railway has embraced model-driven, shipment-focused operations planning to become, by all appearances, one of the largest users of scheduled railroading processes.
The use of shipment-management science and operations research led to a 2002 cost-base reduction calculated by CPR at more than C$500 million. It also has supported diversion of traffic ...