The CSX H2R Optimizer Provides Path to Better Transportation
By Clarence Gooden
The Highway to Intermodal Rail (H2R) Optimizer
● Virtually all shippers have inefficient freight routes in their shipping networks. CSX Transportation offers a simple solution for combating this simple fact: the Highway to Intermodal Rail (H2R) Optimizer. The tool allows shippers to look at various shipping modalities and optimize supply chains according to the most efficient routes.
Benefits
● A proprietary tool, the H2R Optimizer looks throughout a shipper’s network to identify the ideal opportunities for H2R conversion. Shippers can achieve significant transportation savings and direct that capital to other areas of the organization.
● The company offers the H2R Optimizer tool as a complementary means of making transportation more efficient.
● The tool uses origin, destination, and volume data to calculate the most significant opportunities for intermodal savings.
Security
● Understanding the importance of privacy, CSX Transportation protects all user data. Data provided to the organization will be used for H2R analysis and no other purpose with non-disclosure agreements available.
● Users have no financial obligation and incur no risk when they submit data for analysis.