Proactive AI for freight rail
Move more with the assets you already run.
Movement, asset, billing, and service data is spread across yards, systems, and regions. Cimba unifies it into one governed view and surfaces what's costing you: idle or mispositioned railcars, terminal dwell, service risk, and revenue leaking through demurrage and car-hire, each with the recommended move for the team that owns it.
Assets sitting idle
Railcars and locomotives dwelling in yards or positioned in the wrong place tie up capital and capacity, but utilization surfaces late.
Terminals and yards bottlenecked
Dwell and congestion ripple across the network well before anyone sees the cause, and before it shows up in velocity numbers.
Service slipping against commitments
Cycle-time and on-time risk shows up after the miss, not before it, when a customer notices first.
Revenue leaking at the margins
Demurrage, detention, and car-hire charges go under-captured or disputed, and pricing decisions lag the market.
The biggest losses hide in movement and billing data, unseen until a report finally catches up.
Where railroads lose time and revenue
Cimba unifies movement, asset, billing, and service data into one continuously scored view, so idle assets, dwell, service risk, and leaked revenue surface early, each with the recommended move for the team that owns it.
Why rail teams choose Cimba
One platform, not multiple tools
Cimba runs analytics, the Next Best Action, and task execution in a single native system, so insight, decision, and action do not live in separate tools that never talk.
A decision layer on the systems you keep
Cimba sits on top of the TMS, yard, and planning systems you already run, adding the decision and action layer, with no rip-and-replace of the tools your teams trust.
From signal to action, across the network
Every flag comes with the recommended move, reposition, remediate, protect, or recover, routed to the network, mechanical, service, or revenue desk that can act.
Built for enterprise scale
Deploy across regions, yards, and fleets, grounded in the transportation management, billing, and asset systems you already run, with a full audit trail. Cimba does not run signaling or train control.
Rail workflows Cimba runs
Governed workflows for the teams that own assets, the network, service, and revenue.
Asset and fleet utilization
Score railcar and locomotive use, and surface idle or mispositioned assets with a reposition or return recommendation.
Terminal and yard throughput
Track dwell and congestion, and surface bottlenecks with the cause and the next step.
Service and cycle-time reliability
Monitor on-time and cycle-time performance, and surface at-risk moves before the miss.
Yield, pricing, and revenue management
Track lane and account profitability, and surface pricing and mix moves for freight teams.
Demurrage, detention, and car-hire capture
Flag under-billed charges and disputes, with the fix attached and traceable.
Crew and resource planning
Surface crew and resource constraints against the plan, with the next step to keep moves on schedule.
Enterprise-ready by design
Cimba fits the way large railroads already operate, from data to deployment.
Integrations
Connects to the transportation management, mechanical/EMIS, car-hire and interline billing (including Railinc and UMLER data), and ERP systems you already run, with no rip-and-replace.
Security and governance
SOC 2 Type II, role-based access, VPC or data-residency deployment options, and an append-only audit trail on every run.
Deployment across regions
Roll out across regions, subsidiaries, and business units. Cimba works alongside operational systems and does not run signaling, positive train control, or safety-critical systems.
Sample use case
Demurrage and car-hire revenue, caught and defensible before the dispute window closes
A Class I railroad was leaking demurrage, detention, and car-hire revenue: charges were under-captured, applied late, or disputed after the fact because billing, movement, and asset data lived in separate systems.
15-30%
more demurrage and car-hire captured
1 cycle
recovery, down from a month
Traceable
audit trail on every charge
The challenge
Recovering under-captured demurrage, detention, and car-hire meant manual reconciliation across billing, movement, and asset systems that no team had time for, so revenue was applied late or written off.
With Cimba, one continuously scored view
- Under-billed charges surface the moment they occur, with the supporting event trail attached
- The corrected charge is routed straight to the revenue desk, defensible before the dispute window closes
- From there the same platform expands to asset utilization, terminal dwell, and service reliability
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See how Cimba turns movement, asset, billing, and service data into early warnings and the Next Best Action, for the teams that keep the network moving.
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Frequently asked questions
By continuously monitoring movement, asset, billing, and service data and surfacing idle assets, terminal dwell, service risk, and revenue leakage early, each with a recommended action routed to the team that owns it, instead of relying on siloed reports.
It scores railcar and locomotive use and surfaces idle or mispositioned assets with a reposition or return recommendation, so capital and capacity are not left sitting.
Yes. Cimba flags under-billed demurrage, detention, and car-hire and pricing gaps continuously, with the fix attached and traceable, so revenue is captured rather than disputed after the fact.
No. Cimba works on operational and financial data alongside your existing systems. It does not run signaling, positive train control, or any safety-critical system.
Yes. The same asset-utilization, service-reliability, and cost workflows apply to passenger and transit operators and to rail asset lessors, tuned to their data.
Yes. Governed and audit by design, with role-based access and a full audit trail (SOC 2 Type II).
Network operations, mechanical and fleet, service design, pricing and yield, and revenue and billing.