VitalRail Value Proposition

Challenges

• The rail industry, government, financial community, and other key stakeholder groups are not working together to achieve breakthroughs that will result in real economic and environmental sustainability improvements.
• Community relations are piecemeal, missing the opportunity to inspire a groundswell of support for railroads.
• Railroads have a weak relationship with capital providers compared to industries with less resilience, importance, and opportunity.
• Progress in adopting new technologies across diverse actors is too slow.

• The current avenues of collaboration are inflexible, cumbersome, and loaded with secondary agendas.

Rail development has suffered from labor-management relations that are hurtful to all sides.

Customers, i.e., communities, landowners, developers, and shippers, are often left out of the process of positive change for rail logistics and infrastructure.

Capital providers are poorly informed and lack a clear understanding of rail-related infrastructure, financial statements, asset values, and industry stability, resulting in undercapitalization and spotty capitalization.

Economic development professionals are inadequately trained in rail-enabled economic development.

There is a significant and costly disconnect between public-sector economic development and infrastructure planning, and private-sector business development and logistics.

Public-sector transportation plans, private-sector logistics strategies, and infrastructure capitalization are project-based, not corridor, regional, and systems-based.

Railroads operate in a legislative and regulatory environment diminished by outdated, illogical requirements.

Opportunities

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Results

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