Data Subscriptions
Stop Guessing. Start Knowing.
Railroad Crossing Intelligence for Smarter Decisions
Oculus Rail’s annual data subscription delivers the most accurate, actionable railroad crossing intelligence available. Our AI-powered sensor networks capture crossing blockage events, giving municipalities, railroads, and transportation agencies the data they need to reduce congestion, improve safety, and make informed infrastructure investments.
The Data That Drives Better Decisions
From Constituent Complaints to Concrete Solutions
Railroad crossing issues generate constant complaints, but without accurate data, you’re left guessing at solutions. Traditional traffic models severely underestimate delays because they rely on outdated assumptions and incomplete information. The result? Ineffective treatments, failed funding applications, and frustrated communities.
Oculus Rail Changes Everything
Our subscription service provides granular, verified data on every blockage event—empowering you to respond to complaints with facts, justify infrastructure investments with confidence, and implement solutions that actually work.
What's Included in Your Subscription
Comprehensive Data. Powerful Analytics. Actionable Insights.
Near-Real-Time Blockage Data
Monitor railroad crossing activity as it happens. Our sensors detect blockage within seconds—not days or weeks.
Monitor railroad crossing activity as it happens. Our sensors detect blockage within seconds—not days or weeks.
Detailed Traffic Delay Analytics
Go beyond simple train counts. Understand exactly how blockages impact traffic flow with metrics including:
Go beyond simple train counts. Understand exactly how blockages impact traffic flow with metrics including:
✓ Total delay time per crossing
✓ Delay by time-of-day and day-of-week
✓ Peak congestion periods
✓ Time-stamped images provide actual images of blackages
Online Data Portal with Custom Reporting
Access your data 24/7 through our intuitive municipal dashboards. Drill down into specific crossings, time periods, or traffic patterns. Export custom reports for presentations, funding applications, or public records requests.
Access your data 24/7 through our intuitive municipal dashboards. Drill down into specific crossings, time periods, or traffic patterns. Export custom reports for presentations, funding applications, or public records requests.
Historical Trend Analysis
Track changes over time to measure the impact of infrastructure improvements, identify seasonal patterns, and forecast future needs.
API Access
Integrate Oculus Rail data directly into your existing traffic management systems, CAD platforms, or GIS tools for seamless workflow integration.
Integrate Oculus Rail data directly into your existing traffic management systems, CAD platforms, or GIS tools for seamless workflow integration.
Who Benefits from Data Subscriptions
Municipalities & City Managers
Respond to Complaints with Confidence
Stop fielding angry calls without answers. Access precise data on blockage frequency, duration, and traffic impact to respond to constituent concerns with facts—not estimates.
Stop fielding angry calls without answers. Access precise data on blockage frequency, duration, and traffic impact to respond to constituent concerns with facts—not estimates.
Build Winning Funding Applications
Federal and state grant programs require accurate benefit-cost analyses. Oculus Rail’s detailed delay metrics provide the hard data needed to justify infrastructure investments and secure funding.
Federal and state grant programs require accurate benefit-cost analyses. Oculus Rail’s detailed delay metrics provide the hard data needed to justify infrastructure investments and secure funding.
Optimize Traffic Management
Identify which crossings cause the most delay and when. Use this intelligence to adjust signal timing, implement detour routes, or prioritize grade separation projects.
Identify which crossings cause the most delay and when. Use this intelligence to adjust signal timing, implement detour routes, or prioritize grade separation projects.
Measure ROI on Infrastructure Investments
Installing a new underpass or upgraded signals? Track before-and-after data to quantify improvements and demonstrate value to taxpayers and elected officials.
Installing a new underpass or upgraded signals? Track before-and-after data to quantify improvements and demonstrate value to taxpayers and elected officials.
Railroads
Enhance Operational Transparency
Demonstrate good-neighbor practices with objective data on crossing blockages. Address community concerns proactively and improve public relations.
Demonstrate good-neighbor practices with objective data on crossing blockages. Address community concerns proactively and improve public relations.
Identify Operational Inefficiencies
Pinpoint locations where switching operations or extended dwell times create excessive blockages. Optimize train movements to reduce community impact.
Pinpoint locations where switching operations or extended dwell times create excessive blockages. Optimize train movements to reduce community impact.
Support Collaborative Planning
Share accurate data with municipalities and transportation agencies to facilitate joint infrastructure planning and funding partnerships.
Share accurate data with municipalities and transportation agencies to facilitate joint infrastructure planning and funding partnerships.
Mitigate Liability Risks
Document actual crossing activity to support incident investigations and defend against inaccurate claims about blockage frequency or duration.
Document actual crossing activity to support incident investigations and defend against inaccurate claims about blockage frequency or duration.
Transportation Agencies & MPOs
Prioritize Regional Investments
Compare crossing impacts across your entire jurisdiction. Allocate resources where they’ll have the greatest effect on mobility and safety.
Compare crossing impacts across your entire jurisdiction. Allocate resources where they’ll have the greatest effect on mobility and safety.
Model Future Scenarios
Use historical data to forecast the impact of proposed rail service changes, new developments, or infrastructure projects.
Use historical data to forecast the impact of proposed rail service changes, new developments, or infrastructure projects.
Support Long-Range Planning
Integrate accurate crossing data into regional transportation plans, freight studies, and multimodal corridor analyses.
Integrate accurate crossing data into regional transportation plans, freight studies, and multimodal corridor analyses.
Comply with Federal Reporting Requirements
Generate the detailed crossing activity reports required for FRA compliance and federal grant applications.
Generate the detailed crossing activity reports required for FRA compliance and federal grant applications.
Transit Operators & Fleet Managers
Optimize Route Planning
Identify which crossings cause the most delay for your vehicles. Adjust routes to minimize impact on schedule reliability and operating costs.
Identify which crossings cause the most delay for your vehicles. Adjust routes to minimize impact on schedule reliability and operating costs.
Improve On-Time Performance
Reduce unexpected delays by understanding crossing blockage patterns. Build realistic schedules that account for actual conditions.
Reduce unexpected delays by understanding crossing blockage patterns. Build realistic schedules that account for actual conditions.
Quantify Operational Costs
Calculate the true cost of railroad crossing delays on your fleet—fuel consumption, driver hours, missed connections, and customer satisfaction.
Calculate the true cost of railroad crossing delays on your fleet—fuel consumption, driver hours, missed connections, and customer satisfaction.
Why Oculus Rail Data is Superior
The Most Accurate Crossing Intelligence Available
✓ Installed Off Railroad Property
Fast, inexpensive deployment in the public right-of-way adjacent to the rail crossing. No railroad approval delays required.
Fast, inexpensive deployment in the public right-of-way adjacent to the rail crossing. No railroad approval delays required.
✓ Near-Real-Time Delivery
Data flows continuously from sensors to your portal. No waiting weeks for manual processing or batch uploads.
Data flows continuously from sensors to your portal. No waiting weeks for manual processing or batch uploads.