The purpose of this project is the specification of the business requirements and essential data items suitable to be transferred using mobile technologies during the delivery of transport services. A transport services provider (carrier or freight forwarder) when contracted by a transport services buyer (consigner or consignee) is committed to deliver the contracted consignment to a designated consignee via any named contractual locations. In reality, as a result of the diversified nature of the modern intermodal, synchromodal and multimodal transport infrastructures, the actual routes deployed often vary from the contractual arrangements. The reasons for these deviations are very varied but most often result from operational considerations. However, changes in itineraries during transport movements can also be pointers to security and other risks of interest to cross-border agencies. In both cases, the tracking of the trade items is made more difficult with every operational route change and all the parties concerned are needing new methods by which they can be informed of all such changes in safer, more precise and prompt ways.
Modern communication methods such as those based on mobile technologies can assist in providing real-time information to keep all interested parties up to date along the transport chain. However, these new communications methods are not suitable for exchanging large-scale amounts of data and therefore the key data requirements need to be identified to support short, sharp efficient data deliveries at regular intervals.
This project will base its work on the Multi Modal Transport (MMT) reference model and will analyse the required subset business process scenario and identify the relevant data items and structures needed for supporting real-time mobile technologies.
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