OFFICIAL SITE SPONSOR
Advanced Rail Management Corp.

Advanced Rail Management Corp., and it's affiliate based in Canada (Advanced Rail Management Canada Inc.) were both incorporated in 1990. These companies were formed to meet a specific perceived need in the rail industry (both heavy-haul and transit system operations) - namely a unique combination of practical and high-level technical expertise of the rail/wheel interface using a systems engineering approach. One of the most important elements of this concept has been ARM's ongoing emphasis of including input from both the vehicle AND track departments of each client. ARM's long-term plans are to provide the industry with a comprehensive "rail management" service, involving not only the consulting expertise needed to optimize the rail/wheel interface, but also appropriate supporting services such as optical rail measurement to generate accurate, short and long-term forecasts for rail replacement. Historical events of ARM: • ARM and ARM (Canada) incorporated in 1990 List of clients worked with: • MBTA (Boston) • MertoLink (Southern California) • MARTA (Atlanta) • DART • Canadian National • Paducah and Louisville • Detroit People Mover • Florida East Coast Railway • Illinois Central • Kansas City Southern • Southern Pacific • Norfolk Southern • CSX • Gateway Western • Elgin, Joliet & Eastern • Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range • Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific • Quebec Cartier Mining • Quebec North Shore & Labrador • LTV Steel (mining) • Central Illinois Public Service Company • Los Angeles Transit (LAC-MTA) • Edmonton Transit • Bi-State Development Agency (St. Louis) In 1994, ARM started design effort for their first optical rail measurement vehicle, designated ORMV-1. This project involved a team effort of ARM and Range Vision Inc., the company providing the optical rail measuring system. • Revenue service of the ORMV-1 started in July 1995. • March 1996 - Introduced the CD-ROM system software to complement data collected by the ORMV-1 and to provide "paperless" operation sponsored annual ARM seminars from 1994-97 (Rail Maintenance Seminar 94-96, Rail/Wheel Interface Seminar 97)