Rail Transportation Management Software
Railroads
Close the gap between
operations and revenue.
Margin lives in the details—and so does crew efficiency. Without real-time visibility, crews waste time chasing car positions and supervisors make decisions on stale data. Billing teams manually reconstruct charges that should have been generated automatically. ARMS gives your crews full visibility, automates charge generation, billing, notifications, and settlement—from the moment a car hits your network to the moment revenue is recognized.
Schedule a DemoWhat ARMS Delivers for Railroads
Built for the way you work.
Network-wide car inventory
Real-time visibility across your entire network—every shipment, every location, every status—live via AEI reader data or GPS integration.
Optiswitch™ plan generation
AI-powered switching plan generation that sequences and optimizes car movements across the network—reducing dwell, improving car utilization, and maximizing throughput.
Flexible & accurate rate engine
Complex tariff and contract logic configured by your operations team—not a developer. Built on CEL (Common Expression Language) with Price Application Hierarchy, so you can layer rules across revenue types and the right rate applies every time, automatically.
Demurrage & storage billing
Free days, credit days, tariff exceptions, multi-tier charge logic, and excess storage calculations—demurrage and storage billing is inherently complex. ARMS handles it natively, including excess storage in the core revenue engine—something no other system does out of the box. Every billable day captured, every charge generated accurately.
ISS & junction settlement
Manage shipments holistically—not chasing individual URRWINs. ARMS surfaces exceptions, so your team spends time on actual issues, not reviewing clean records. Built-in month-end accounting reports ensure financials are properly booked. On the junction side, every shipment is accounted for and auto-audited against weekly remittance files, so you know you’re getting paid accurately.
REN integration
Your entire rate catalog—digitized, searchable, and always current. Foreign rates auto-uploaded through REN with no dual entry. ARMS manages the full publication lifecycle from rate creation through distribution, so every published rate is accurate and accessible in one place.
Customer portal
Self-service visibility for your customers and partners—cars, waybills, and charges in real time, reducing inbound calls and keeping all parties informed.
EDI & Railinc integration
Automated ingestion of EDI feeds, waybills, and Railinc data—418 Consists, 404 Bills of Lading, 417 Waybills, 419/420 blocking queries, and full AEI automation for interchanges and track events.
Cedar Mobile
Offline-first app for field crews—interchange delivery, car inspections, and work orders from any iOS or Android device, with or without a signal.
Modern Rail Technology
The ARMS advantage
Run your railroad your way
ARMS adapts to how your operation actually works—not the other way around. Optiswitch generates AI-optimized switch plans in seconds. Train and job management give supervisors full control over crew assignments, consists, and work orders. Cedar Mobile puts interchange delivery, inspections, and completions in the hands of field crews on any device. Every operational function—from car tracking to switch planning to interchange delivery—runs live, on one platform, with nothing stale and nothing waiting.
Combine five systems into one
Operations, billing, car hire, tariff rating, and analytics—natively connected. Every event in your network creates intelligence, not another reconciliation task. No more spreadsheets bridging the gaps between disconnected tools.
Automation that compounds
Car events generate charges. Charges generate invoices. Foreign rates upload automatically through REN. Month-end reports book themselves. The work that used to consume your back office now runs in the background—freeing your team to run the railroad.
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