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Last week’s Economist had an article on Chicago bogging down with 1,200 trains a day, a third of the nation’s rail traffic. It can take days to get freight across town. Unlike airlines, or any efficient logistics operation railroads have no intermediary to route shipments from one carrier to another. Railroads just fax news of arriving trains. The Chicago Transportation Coordination Office (CTCO) wants to fix this and a planned Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency (CREATE) program is waiting for federal funding (which they’ll never get from Bush). I’d imagine anyone planning logistics at FedEx or WalMart would look at this and wonder why railroads have neglected hubs that connect carriers. This looks like an obvious business opportunity for logistics entrepreneurs to save railroads and customers a huge amount of time and $ nationwide. Why aren’t railroads a lot more interested.
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