Dear all,
within a project funded by the EU I am working on the implementation of
Freight Transport Management Systems (FTMS) and Traffic Management Systems
(TMS).
The technical development of both the freight transport management and
traffic management system is more or less sophisticated. The difficulties
for an implementation concerning e.g. data compatibility are not only a
technical but, in fact, an organisational problem because of the obvious
different ownership of FTMS and TMS. There is strong competition within the
market which leads to withhold of freight information (information systems
seem to be a powerful tool). Freight orientated companies do not see any
business interest or incentives to cooperate with public authorities and
vice versa.
I collected some aspects/questions about how an integration and
implementation for different transport modes should be performed.
And I would like to ask you to comment the questions and the answers given.
Thanks in advance.
1. Performance of an implementation scenario (rail)
What do private companies expect?
They expect a support for the performance of several operational procedures:
Train planning (schedule, tracking and tracing), resource planning
(capacity of the tunnel), trip planning, route planning, cost calculation,
customer services and traffic management in general (e.g. district
management).
More general: reliability, fast transport, flexibility, low (affordable)
cost, good performance of SCM
What do public authorities expect?
capacity utilisation, safety management, to meet the arranged time
schedule, competent partner for customers
Benefits: cost reduction, improvement of traffic and transport quality,
improvement of allocation of resources
Driving forces: to reach a certain traffic level (fluent freight flow) and
transit volume, clear and transparent structures of responsibilities
Reasons against a cooperation: relatively high costs (because of the
processing of raw data), cooperation of the different responsible
authorities is not ensured (problems of communication, incompatibility of
data)
2. Performance of an implementation scenario (road)
What do private companies expect?
Transport orders, trip planning and replanning, customer services, route
planning, cost calculation, quotation and fleet management, traveller
journey support, freight and fleet operation management, port related
transport from and to a terminal, custom regulations, etc.
More general: reliability, fast transport, flexibility, low (affordable)
cost
What do public authorities expect?
capacity utilisation, safety management (traffic control), a more faster
and more service-friendly port
Benefits: networking to lower the costs, better control of freight and
trucks (less damages or accidents)
Driving forces: uncomplicated custom services, increase of attractiveness
e.g. of the port of Hamburg
Reasons against a cooperation: relatively high costs (because of the
processing of raw data), cooperation of the different responsible
authorities is not ensured (problems of communication, incompatibility of
data)
3. Performance of an implementation scenario (waterborne)
What do private companies expect? They expect a support for the performance
of several operational procedures:
main operations for the stake holders are trip planning, route planning,
cost calculation and costumer services. The main operations for the TIC are
accident analysis, custom procedures, border crossing operations and lock
operation. Furthermore traffic management (e.g. improvement of safety of
the traffic and efficiency of traffic flow), calamity management, resource
planning at terminals and locks, terminal planning and vessel traffic
management.
More general: reliability, fast transport, flexibility, low (affordable)
cost
What do public authorities expect? capacity utilisation, safety management,
cost reduction
Benefits: satisfied customers because of an effective supply chain
performance (efficiency of traffic flow), ecologic aspects (improvement of
environmental conditions), cost reduction
Driving forces: better safety on sea or rivers, optimisation of traffic
(less waiting times i.e. at locks), react to political forces (“sustainable
mobility”) to get money, efficient resource planning
Reasons against a cooperation: relatively high costs (because of the
processing of raw data), cooperation of the different responsible
authorities is not ensured (problems of communication, incompatibility of
data)
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