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Information technology for freight transportation coordination

Modern society relies on the availability of sophisticated levels of physical mobility. Transport is having difficulties to respond to this needs, and telecommunications and information technologies procreate new possibilities for substitution of the physical mobility, using various of electronic mobility. In the paper new modal possibilities are discussed , stating some basic hypothesis about virtual mobility and implication of the telecommunications and information technologies on transport. Freight transport has to meet increasing quality requirements in terms of flexibility, speed and reliability in order to deliver the goods at a precise time and place. Depending on the type of good, logistics costs can account for up to one third of the final market price, although this proportion is often smaller and has generally decreased over the last decades. About one quarter of these can be transport-related costs. Well functioning information and communication flows are indispensible for the management of multi-party supply- and distribution chains. They allow pre- and on-trip information exchange, including service availability, negotiation procedures, tracking and tracing, information on disruptions and the flow of transport documents. Advanced services such as real-time information accelerate the information flow and make it more reliable which enhances service quality. In this paper usage of the information technology for freight transportation coordination is discussed.

Information technology; maritime transport

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