PENN'S CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION AND WAYBILLING SYSTEM.

Penn Central's transportation and waybilling system (TABS) focuses on the solution of a data gathering problem which is primarily business oriented and secondarily, transportation oriented. The two essential functions of car reporting and billing of customers for services rendered are critical to the operation of a railroad system. Both of these functions are initiated by the origination of a freight wayball which is the legal contract for supply transportation services. The system design criteria of TABS formulates methods of obtaining control of the waybill information describing the services to be rendered and provides this information to responsible management who must conduct the operation of the railroad system.