How Does Rail-BatchPro Work?

BatchPro works as follows: the name of your input file of car records is passed as a parameter to BatchPro. Guided by the description of the input file format that is entered in the BatchPro window, PC*MILER Rail first determines the validity of the sighting railroad/sighting location combinations contained in the file. PC*MILER Rail then attempts to generate a mileage for each valid pair of consecutive records or each single record containing a valid O/D pair.

An output file is created in which the mileage figure is placed at the end of each record from the input file. The output file is named xxxxxxxx.OUT, where “ xxxxxxxx ” is the name of the input file, and is placed in a folder that you specify or in the folder where the input file resides. If mileage is not generated for an O/D pair due to processing errors, data errors, or other factors, an error message will be generated in the .OUT file.