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Mary Kelly, Media Relations
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ALK Releases PC*MILER|Rail 18
Includes Ability to Avoid or Favor Junction Interchanges
Princeton, New Jersey — October 20, 2011 — ALK Technologies, Inc., today announced the release of PC*MILER|Rail 18, the latest version of the transportation and logistics industry’s leading rail routing, mileage and mapping software solution.
The release of PC*MILER|Rail 18 coincides with strong rail volumes despite an economy that is struggling to gain steam. Through a close working relationship with all of the major railroads, ALK has developed the most accurate digital representation of the current North American rail network in PC*MILER|Rail.
One of many new features in PC*MILER|Rail 18 is the ability to avoid or favor junction interchanges in AutoRouter, a tool that simplifies route entry by suggesting the junctions and railroad connections to use between origin and destination points. A seperate new feature can process large volumes of origin-destination pairs and interline routes with specific origin and destination railroads using the PC*MILER|Rail-BatchPro module.
PC*MILER|Rail 18 offers improved Intermodal routing, Fuel Surcharge routing, and railroad map views. Data attributes have been enhanced for more than 240,000 miles of rail line, 49,516 active freight stations, thousands of unique junction interchanges, and hundreds of rail carriers — including 14 new railroads. Rail networks have been revised to incorporate recent track abandonments.
PC*MILER|Rail is used by most large rail shippers, railcar lessors and all Class I railroads for transportation management. Key shipper benefits include fuel surcharge calculation, car hire, equipment management, rail car mileage auditing, rate determination and negotiation, carrier selection, and ad valorem tax reporting. Motor carriers and logistics providers with intermodal operations likewise rely heavily on PC*MILER|Rail to determine routing options, rail mileages, and freight rates.
“The JR Simplot Company Food Group Division has been using PC*MILER|Rail for more than five years when examining rail miles and routes. We have found this software has done a good job meeting the needs of our business,” said Kerrick Kuzmic, Transportation Operations Supervisor – JR Simplot Company. “We always look forward to being able to use the latest version of PC*MILER|Rail.”
ALK offers customers several licensing options and value-added solutions to access PC*MILER|Rail routing, mileage and mapping functionality. The standard Windows-based interactive single or multi-user installation allows users to manually run and analyze routes, while PC*MILER|Rail-BatchPro quickly processes large volumes of origin-destination pairs. PC*MILER|Rail-Connect integrates with custom or third-party applications and includes Microsoft Excel Add Ins to compute routes via spreadsheet formulas. A TCP/IP add-on is available for interfacing with other platforms including UNIX, IBM iSeries, and CICS Mainframe. PC*MILER|Rail map data files can be licensed to use with ALK’s routing network model or other GIS software.
For more information about PC*MILER|Rail, please visit: www.pcmiler.com/rail or email sales@alk.com.
About ALK Technologies, Inc.
Since 1979, ALK Technologies has developed innovative mobile navigation and transportation technology solutions. ALK's award-winning CoPilot Live GPS software is the navigation services platform of choice for fleets, mobile operators, hardware OEMs, systems integrators and professional drivers globally. ALK's PC*MILER routing, mileage and mapping solutions are depended on by transportation, logistics and manufacturing companies worldwide.
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