UNPUnion Pacific Corporation

“inside our terminals, we've talked in the past about technologies like Mobile NX that allow us to automate part of that. There's some AI components to that, and there's certainly value in that. Even more valuable is the tools that we've provided like terminal command center to our teams that are actually on the ground operating those terminals. That provides them an even higher level of intelligence and being able to not only forecast what's coming at them, but for what they have in their yard, how do they see problems right?”

“think about using AI inside of our dispatching center. We have an automated movement planner is a program that we call that's informed by AI, and it's continually evolving. Automated movement planner really focuses on driving an even more consistent and reliable service by providing support to our dispatchers in real time and looking out 12 hours in advance to lay out their railroad.”

“we're going to be implementing and have the capability to implement our locomotives to make them even more autonomous than they are today so that they can operate to give us more fuel conservation. Those tools are driven by technology in the background that allows the locomotives to operate in a smarter, much more fuel-efficient manner. And we're getting pretty close to be able to roll that out, not yet today.”

“across the company, whether it's how we're going to be able to communicate with customers, how we're -- the number of people you need to be able to communicate with customers and how you get information better. We're working hard on that using AI tools and information tools to be able to do that. Even in the finance department, how do we get better being able to get information out.”

“our conversations inside UP when we talk about AI or equivalent tools, really focused first on making sure that we're not doing it just to do it. We're instead focused on what is the actual thing we're trying to solve and what's the associated value, whether that's removing car touches, dropping dollars to the bottom line, improving our service.”

“You layer on top of that the technology that Jim had mentioned and Jennifer mentioned and I mentioned in a previous question that was asked, well, now you got a multiplying factor right? Now you're actually getting even more out of those initiatives.”

“in total for the whole company, I mean, there's at least 8 or 10 really major projects that we're using. I've given you 2 examples, but they really represent how we're using it to, one, improve our service product and to, drive efficiency.”

“we're talking about trying to get to the point where we can do that in days instead of weeks the way it takes us right now. The way we manifest and use employees to make sure that we optimize the entire system.”