Pub Date : 1995-07-30DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518069
E. Durr, J. Cooper
Tracing and tracking information availability provides a vital opportunity for intermodal traffic to achieve a competitive edge over road transport. This paper describes the commercially running intermodal information system, CombiCom, on one of Europe's major corridors and treats the business opportunities generated by such a real-time distributed information architecture.
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Pub Date : 1995-07-30DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518061
S. R. Kale
The Oregon Department of Transportation is developing an Intermodal Management System (IMS) as one of six ISTEA-required management systems. The IMS is intended to lead to better information and decisions about public sector investments in intermodal passenger and freight transportation facilities and connections. The IMS and the other management systems will support transportation planning and programming processes at the state and regional levels.
{"title":"Developing Oregon's intermodal management system","authors":"S. R. Kale","doi":"10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518061","url":null,"abstract":"The Oregon Department of Transportation is developing an Intermodal Management System (IMS) as one of six ISTEA-required management systems. The IMS is intended to lead to better information and decisions about public sector investments in intermodal passenger and freight transportation facilities and connections. The IMS and the other management systems will support transportation planning and programming processes at the state and regional levels.","PeriodicalId":436875,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Rim TransTech Conference. 1995 Pacific Rim TransTech Conference Proceedings. A Ride into the Future","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122044337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1995-07-30DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518064
A. J. Johnson, R.W. Volberding
Billions of tons of cargo cross international borders and flow through ports every year in intermodal containers and semi-trailers. At present, the worldwide norm is to inspect these containers and vehicles using time-consuming and costly manual inspection. However, inspection samples are small and ineffective in stemming the flow of contraband and detecting import/export violations. To address this problem the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an agency of the US Department of Defense, initiated a nonintrusive cargo inspection technology development program in 1991. The program included the operation of a test and demonstration facility in Houston, Texas from November 1991 through October 1992. It also included the design, construction and operation of a full-scale testbed in the port of Tacoma, Washington, where extensive tests of high-energy X-ray imaging system technology were conducted from May 1993 through December 1993. The prime contractor for the design, construction and operation of both the Houston and Tacoma facilities was Analytical Systems Engineering Corporation (ASEC). This paper presents an overview of the components of a high-energy X-ray imaging system and presents test results that demonstrate that high-energy X-ray inspection techniques can reliably detect contraband hidden within cargo, reliably detect variations between documented and actual cargo, allow a significantly greater percentage of cargo to be inspected, allow more thorough and faster inspections than by using manual means, and reduce inspection costs.
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Pub Date : 1995-07-30DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518066
E. Morlok, L. Spasovic
The importance of reducing the cost of the highway portion (termed drayage) of intermodal rail-truck service in order to increase the competitiveness of such service with over-the-road trucking is discussed. Approaches to achieving this using modern information technology and various organizational changes are described, and estimates of the magnitude of potential cost savings are presented. Supporting public sector policies and actions are also described, with particular attention to ones that take advantage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) legislation and the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program. The potential benefits in terms of reducing the break-even distance above which intermodal is preferred and expanding intermodal market share are discussed. The application of these ideas to port drayage is also discussed briefly.
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Pub Date : 1995-07-30DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518054
E. Lindquist
The ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has elevated traditional local and state-level transportation planning efforts to the level of national and international planning and transportation policy. The implementation of NAFTA is creating significant problems for transportation planners, including increased commercial vehicle congestion, and an emphasis on institutional and political issues. The incremental implementation of elements of the trade agreement compounds planning problems as trade conditions, and subsequent demands on border transportation infrastructure, will be changing rapidly. Focusing primarily on commercial vehicle traffic, this paper provides an overview of NAFTA, institutional issues relating to transportation planning, state and local transportation planning efforts in Texas, and the research efforts of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center of Excellence at Texas A&M University.
{"title":"The effect of international trade agreements on transportation planning along the Texas-Mexico border","authors":"E. Lindquist","doi":"10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518054","url":null,"abstract":"The ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has elevated traditional local and state-level transportation planning efforts to the level of national and international planning and transportation policy. The implementation of NAFTA is creating significant problems for transportation planners, including increased commercial vehicle congestion, and an emphasis on institutional and political issues. The incremental implementation of elements of the trade agreement compounds planning problems as trade conditions, and subsequent demands on border transportation infrastructure, will be changing rapidly. Focusing primarily on commercial vehicle traffic, this paper provides an overview of NAFTA, institutional issues relating to transportation planning, state and local transportation planning efforts in Texas, and the research efforts of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center of Excellence at Texas A&M University.","PeriodicalId":436875,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Rim TransTech Conference. 1995 Pacific Rim TransTech Conference Proceedings. A Ride into the Future","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114895856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1995-07-30DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518065
T. Nathanail
The transportation of hazardous goods is a very important sector affecting the economy of the countries, however, encompassing numerous hazards for the physical and social environment. Moreover, intermodal transportation creates all the necessary requisites for energy savings, and environmental protection, and the member countries of the European Union are encouraged to finance the construction of structures which accommodate the transportation of hazardous cargo in an intermodal environment. This paper aims to present a methodology for the design of an architecture for the monitoring of the intermodal transportation of hazardous cargo. Based on a top-bottom approach, it examines the environment under which the hazardous material is being transported. The main components of a mostly suitable monitoring architecture for the intermodal transportation of hazardous goods are defined. These components mainly refer to the application of advanced technologies for the automatic cargo identification, automatic vehicle/train/vessel positioning, and information and data exchange among users (EDI and telecommunication networks). The overall architectural scheme is designed taking into consideration the integration of a risk module, which plays a very important role in the trip planning process and the emergency situation response operations.
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Pub Date : 1995-07-30DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518056
R. Kopichi, S. Tsukada, Derong Wang
China is the fastest growing participant in the global economy. Over the past decade, China's foreign trade increased by a factor of 1.7. This remarkable growth has occurred in spite of an inefficient logistics system lagging well behind the world's "best practices". Relieving the constraints and limitations associated with an unreliable intermodal system and time consuming administrative procedures has recently become a high-priority policy agenda for the Chinese Government. The World Bank and the Chinese Government have undertaken a joint study of the transport logistics system with a view to improving the technology base as well as its institutional capability. The study focussed on the inland distribution of seaborne containers and trade facilitation. This presentation reviews some of the early findings of this year-long study, for which more than 50 Chinese logistics specialists together with the World Bank staff and expatriate consultants have been mobilized. The presentation includes: (i) an overview of the current transport logistics system; and (ii) possible approaches for improvement of China's intermodal system. It also presents a possible framework for the future development of the logistics system in China.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1109/PRTTC.1995.518072
U. Mehlberg
This document gives a basic description of a system which will dramatically reduce manual labor, reduce operational idle times in on-dock intermodal yards and improve car turn-around times and car dispatch. This paper describes how automatic equipment identification (AEI) is used in conjunction with purpose specific PC software and electronic data interchange (EDI) technology to dramatically reduce, and at certain cases eliminate, all manual inventory functions of intermodal railcars and their intermodal loads (containers and trailers) arriving in an on-dock intermodal rail yard. All existing hardware in this system is in existence and has been well proven for its intended applications. Software for tracking railcars on track has also been successfully used. The software integrating the information received from the AEI reader sites and through EDI is under development at this time and the first phase will be implemented in September of 1995.
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