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Part 1 respond
Discussion 1: "Union Pacific Corporation"
Respond to the following:
Perform an analysis of the social / demographic, technological, economic, environmental / geographic, and political/legal / governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Union Pacific.
Describe how Union Pacific will be affected by each of these external factors.
Part 2 respond
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Demography- The act of counting people. It also is important to study the forces that are driving population change, and measure how these changes have an impact on people's lives. The US Population Growth was 9.7% and the US Population served by the company is 11.9%
Technological- Union Pacific is up to date with technology. IBM introduced the massive computing stacks in 1964, and Union Pacific started an early transaction processing system and was the first railroad to apply a car-scheduling application.
Environmental- The US Environmental Protection Agency. Union Pacific will fund tamarisk eradication and native plant restoration work at two locations, covering approximately 50 acres within the Meadow Valley Wash channel, upstreea from the locations of it violations.
Geographic and Political- Union Pacific provides rail transportation services throughout the Southern and Western US, as well as Mexico and Western Canada.
Legal- The US Environment Protection Agency, The Federal Railroad Administration and The United Transportation Union petitions for a review that the agency lacked jurisdiction to decide whether the Union Pacific Railroad Company had authority under the Collective Bargaining Agreement to name terminals for a new service the railroad had introduced in California.
Union Pacific Corporation is a rail transportation company. The company works Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Energy, Industrial Products and Intermodal. It services all major routes of West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to Eastern gateways, which also gets connected with the Canada's rail systems and other major gateways to Mexico. The investigation of the economic environment shows that due to recovery time, there has been an increase in the request of the products, which increases the handling of the transportation of merchandise. During this time, automotive companies in the US also have a high demand.
The Optimization of Global Railroads, (n.d.) Retreived January 8, 2018, from https:// www.03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/smarterrail/breakthroughs/
How America's Top Railroad Learns to Fly, (n.d.)